LADY WATSON IN THE U.S.A.
The widow of Sir William Watson, the poet, ''arrived in New York recentr ly, says the "bManchester Guardian.'-' She intends to settle iv. the United states, as the one place on earth removed from the tumult of war. For the last three years she has been living in Cape Town, where she helped to support herself and her family by giving lessons in English to refugees from Germany. Her only certain income at present is a Civil List pension of £120 a year, and her immediate concern is to find employment for herself and her two daughters. She has brought with her to the United States the manuscript of a book she.has recently completed on her husband's life. She has chosen Baltimore as her place of residence on account of its temperate climate.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 20
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138LADY WATSON IN THE U.S.A. Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 29, 3 August 1939, Page 20
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