Posted by Alex Forbes on July 13, 2003 at 18:24:30 from 67.75.200.75 user Pitsligo.
In Reply to: Re: Evgenia's reference to posted by Dave Thewlis on July 11, 2003 at 14:57:46:
That form of reference does seem odd. Do we have any other of Evgenia's letters where she refers to AR by name? Either as "Arthur", "Arthur Ransome", Arthur Cyriliich", etc.?
Could she, once he was in the past tense, have adopted a greater degree of formality when referring to him?
Alex