Someday I will go looking for the England of English literature like you

Libby 2022-04-10 09:01:09

Please, write and tell me about London. I live for the day when I step off the boat-train and feel its dirty sidewalks under my feet. I want to walk uo Berkley Square and down Wimple Street and stand in St.Paul's where John Donne preached. And sit on the step where Elizabeth sat on when she refused to enter the Tower, and places like that. A newspaper man I know, who was in London during the war says, "Tourists go to England with preconceived notions, so they always find exactly what they go looking for." I told him I'd go looking for the England of English literature. And he said, "Then, it's there."

If you happen to pass by 84, Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

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  • Jaylon 2022-04-21 09:03:52

    A touch of touch flows quietly with the years, until life is translated into another better language by Nianhua.

  • Ernestina 2022-04-21 09:03:52

    I can't bear to see that people are not getting enough to eat. Seeing the excitement of those British people receiving food from far away from the United States brings tears to my eyes! ! !

84 Charing Cross Road quotes

  • Helene Hanff: "The reader will not credit that such things could be," Walton says somewhere or other, "but I was there and I saw it." That's for me! I'm a great lover of "I was there" books.

  • Taxi Driver: Where to luv?

    Helene Hanff: 84 Charing Cross Road.