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Haven't any news : Ruby's letters from the fifties / letters written by Ruby Cress ; edited by her sister, Edna Staebler ; with an afterword by Marlene Kadar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cress, Ruby, 1911-
- Series:
- Life writing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barrie (Ont.)--History.
- Barrie (Ont.).
- Barrie (Ont.)--Biography.
- Cress, Ruby, 1911---Correspondence.
- Cress, Ruby.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (176 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Ruby wrote letters home almost every week....She wrote anything that came into her head: about her children and Fred, her housekeeping, food, clothes, her friends, activities, schemes for making money, her dreams for the future....Her letters, nave, intimate and lively, were always optimistic or poignant. We'd read them to each other on the phone or pass them around. Often we saved them."" So writes Edna Staebler in her introduction to this edited collection of her sister Ruby's letters from the fifties. In 1957 when Edna first began to collect and edit these letters she did
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction to Ruby's Letters; Ruby's Letters; Addendum; Afterword
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786610924967
- 9781280924965
- 1280924969
- 9780889206007
- 0889206007
- OCLC:
- 753479593
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