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A collection of the correspondence between Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry. Their lives were inextricably, and often painfully, intertwined until her tragically early death from tuberculosis in 1923. The correspondence of Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry is a story in its own right, as compelling and poignant as any Mansfield herself invented. The letters begin in January 1912, a month after their first meeting, when both were relative newcomers to the London literary scene; the last, a letter from Murry, was written four days before Katherine died in January, 1923. The intervening years were ones of both feverish creativity and heartbreaking frustration; of intense closeness and unassailable distance; of shared idealism and, as Katherine's illness took its inexorable hold, of mutual recognition that the glittering partnership they'd once envisaged would be cut tragically short. This wonderful collection illuminates the unique personal magnetism which has become part of the Mansfield legend, with the immediacy of conversation and the candor that only the very finest epistolary writing can provide.