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...will, I must ask you to correct the misstatements made in your obituary of Feb. 18. Mr. Douglas did not die "in penury"; he was a man of independent means; nor did he die in a "borrowed villa."He honored me by living permanently in my house on Capri, where we had dwelt together since the war until his recent death...
KENNETH MACPHERSON Capri, Italy...
Apart from earnings from writing and royalties, he was in receipt of an annuity of $3,000 for the last 23 years. Three thousand a year goes a long way in Capri. If that be penury, I hope I may be comparably penurious when I retire...
...durable British music-hall comedienne, who deliberately "tampered with the radio" because she liked the looks of the repairman; and Rumanian-born Abraham Boris Alperovici, 48, the radio repairman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Santo Stefano Church, near Gracie's Isle of Capri villa...
...deft hand at music, diplomacy, linguistics and science (zoology, geology, archeology) before he wrote, and sold in 1917 for a piddling ?75, the novel South Wind, a perennially popular satiric classic that made him famous; of a stroke; in penury in a borrowed villa on the Isle of Capri. The son of a Scottish cotton-mill owner, Douglas first journeyed to Capri in 1888, on the trail of a rare species of blue lizard, fell in love with the island and made it his soul's operating base. In his middle 40s, he denounced Christian conventions as a sham...