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Sender: Manchester, Isla and Sherman
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: Telegram
Date(s): 7 Nov 1934
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 32
Note: Writing from Connecticut with hearfelt sympathy on the death of A R Orage. "No finer man ever lived".
Sender: Page, Tanis
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): ? Nov 1934
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 31
Note: Writing from Maddison, Connecticut on the death of A R Orage. Adds "I hope to God he lives in all those whom he has advised and influenced so well".
Sender: Angold, John (John Penrose Angold)
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): 7 Nov 1934
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, Section 31
Note: Mourns the loss of a friend on the death of A R Orage. Adds "May you live to see his work not perish and his name blessed and honoured universally by the poor as well as by the rich who could afford the leisure of his books"
Sender: Stockton, Miriam K. (Mrs Herbert Stockton)
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): 1 Dec 1934
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 31
Note: Expresses sympathy and sorrow at the death of A R Orage, Adds "I tell you all this to let you know of one more friend among the many who feels that an important part of their lives is gone with the death of this kind and sustaining friendship".
Sender: Oliver, Mary
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): No date
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 31
Note: Distressed to hear of the death of A R Orage. Adds "There are some people whose lives have been so vital that ne knows that it would be impossible for them to cease to exist, and yet one cannot understand why, one day they are here and the next gone".
Sender: Delza, Lisa (Elizabeth Delza School of the Dance)
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): No date
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 31
Note: Conveys heavy grief and sympathy on the death of A R Orage and adds "Our loss is, and will be, irreplaceable.Not often does God give to earth a man of such grandeur of being. But we have been blessed in knowing him, and having had contact with the living force within him".
Sender: Nyland, Meta
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): 15 Nov 1934
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 31
Note: Writing from Norfolk, Virginia to send her deepest feeling of sympathy on the death of A R Orage. Adds "... it may be some confort to you to know that he will never be forgotten and that his spirit will live with us to advise and help us, as he so generously did during his lifetime".
Sender: Matthews, Julie
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): 12 Nov 1934
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 31
Note: Sends deepest sympathy on the death of A R Orage and refers to a memorial meeting which Mr Gurgieff Isic) had organised. Adds "I think that everyone who knew Orage got a stimulus which will last them through their lives, in other words I think he did for everyone who came into contact with him the best thing that one human being can do for another".
Sender: Robinson, Sally and Michael
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): 16 Nov 1934?
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 31
Note: Writing from Colorado Springs to say that they "would like to be near (Jessie) just to help about the daily tasks of living and doing for the little folk". "Surely you must know what we feel and I am unable to write down - to show our affection and appreciation of all that Orage gave to us, we must just go on making what effort we seem ? capable of".
Sender: Ryder, David Warren
Recipient: Orage, Jessie
Letters: 1
Date(s): 5 Dec 1934
Location: BC MS 20c Orage, section 31
Note: Finds it impossible to say what is in his heart and mind at the death of A R Orage. Makes reference to New English Weekly and social credit and A R Orage will live for him as one who ushered in the greatest event of his life. Concludes "And yet I know that your sorrow must be assuaged in the knowledge that, all over the world, increasing thousands of earnest men and women are inspired by your husband's life and death to work unceasingly for the realization of that New World which he gave his life to advance".