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The apartment, at least as I saw it that rainy Saturday afternoon, was not unusual. Hot tea boiled on the stove in the kitchen. Japanese sengai paintings hung on the walls, and jars of candy lay around everywhere. Miss P.L. Travers, the creator of Mary Poppins, lived here, in simple...
There were two frisbies, gifts from some admirers, that lay on a table. One had a flower and Miss Travers' name painted on it. She had her typewriter out, along with a dictaphone. But there was little else. The strong-fibered, slightly aging woman who had greeted me at the...
During that quiet, rainy afternoon in her apartment, we talked mostly about her travels. She was born in Australia, "but I never really enjoyed being in Australia as a child," she said. Her parents were Irish and they had relatives in London whom she was permitted to visit when she...
"As soon as you tell about something you're going to write, it evaporates," Miss Travers reprimanded an inquisitive reporter. "If you're going to have a baby, you can't pull it out after three months and say, 'What does it look like now,'"
Miss Keller told Miss Travers she had gone to Radcliffe. "The word Radcliffe stuck in my mind as a place, a real place," Miss Travers said. She asked if Whitman Hall, where she will live, was named after the poet. When she was told it was named after Sarah Whitman...