“The ACID is here: a bottle has been made up & it has a most superb effect. “I’d rather it was stronger”, she added tellingly, “than weaker.”Įventually strings were pulled and a family relative and diplomat, Sydney Waterlow, managed to get a bottle through Europe to Italy in a diplomatic bag. “Would you ask Dr Sorapure to make me a new prescription or, failing that, would you have the medicine sent to me from a chemist?” begged Katherine Mansfield in a letter from Ospedaletti on the Italian Riviera to her husband, John Middleton Murray, in London, in October 1919. Photo / Alexander Turnbull Libraryĭavid Herkt interviews Redmer Yska about his just-released book on the European travels of Katherine Mansfield – a book that also explores, for the first time, the real extent of her long dependence on morphine. Katherine Mansfield in the gardens of the Villa Isola Bella, Menton, France.
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