Transcript: 23 Fitzroy Road London N.W.l February 4, 1963 Dear Dr. Beuscher, I write from London where I have found a flat & an au pair and can see ahead financially for about a year. I thought I’d get an unfurnished flat~ furnish it by poems & loans, & rent it out summers to tourists… Read More February 4, 1963
Transcript: Court Green North Tawton Devonshire, England October 21, 1962 Dear Dr. Beuscher, Since I last wrote you , everything has blown up, blown apart, and settled in new and startling places. I wrote you in a state of crisis—when Ted ‘ s poems told me what he hadn’t the guts to tell me… Read More October 21st, 1962
Transcript: Court Green North Tawton Devonshire, England October 9, 1962 Dear Dr. Beuscher, I am a bore, but things are resolving. I see and see and see. Ted is home this week, packing for good. He would have left me with all the lies, but bit by bit, the truth has come out. Or… Read More October 9th, 1962
Transcript: Saturday night: Sept. 29 Dear Dr. Beuscher, I am sorry to write so much, but it is my one hope, I think I am dying. I am just desperate. Ted has deserted me, I have not seen him for 2 weeks, he is living in London without address. Tonight, utterly mad with this solitude,… Read More September 29th, 1962
Transcript: September 26, 1962 Dear Sylvia: Glad to get your letter today and to find that you are still fighting, not moping. If you really mean it about separation and not liking him, I would advise going whole hog and getting a divorce. You can certainly get the goods on him now while he is… Read More To Sylvia Plath: September 26th, 1962
Transcript: September 22, 1962 Dear Dr. Beuscher, Your letter came today, at a most needed moment, and I feel the way I used to after our talks—cleared, altered and renewed. I am really asking your help as a woman, the wisest woman emotionally and intellectually, that I know. You are not my mother, but… Read More September 22nd, 1962
Transcript: September 17, 1962 Dearest Sylvia: The thing that has thrown me off is the paid sessions idea. Also, your previous distress letter did not reach me at once, as I had gone for a month’s vacation. I have thought alot about your difficulty. I just don’t see you as a second Caitlin. I… Read More To Sylvia Plath, September 17th, 1962
Transcript: Court Green North Tawton Devonshire, England September 4, 1962 Dear Doctor Beuscher, I’d be awfully grateful just to have a postcard from you saying you think any paid letter sessions between us are impractical or unhelpful or whatever, but something final. Believe me, that would be a relief. It is the feeling of… Read More September 4th, 1962
Transcript: Court Green North Tawton Devonhire, England Monday: July 30th Dear Dr. Beuscher, I do hope you will agree to a few paid letter-sessions. I have even been wildly thinking of saving my money to fly to America for some person-to-person sessions with you, if that were possible, but I have to do a… Read More July 30th, 1962
Transcript: Court Green North Tawton Devonshire, England Friday: July 20 Dear, dear Dr. Beuscher, First of all, please charge me some money. I feel a fraud and a heel to be cadging time and advice out of you for nothing. If I were in America, I would be asking you for a few sessions… Read More July 20th, 1962