Letters from Pessoa's Family: thirteen documents from the Hubert Jennings Papers

Abstract

We present here thirteen previously unpublished letters from the Hubert Jennings Papers, including twelve letters signed by members of Fernando Pessoa’s extended family, plus one letter drafted by Hubert Jennings himself. This correspondence covers a period of time of almost three years, dating from 10 February 1967 to 15 January 1970. Chronologically situated in between the two previously known letters sent from Michael and Teca (published in Pessoa Plural 8), these new documents greatly enrich our understanding of the relationship between Hubert and Pessoa's family, their joined efforts to secure a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and the early inventory of Pessoa’s archive.

Keywords

• Correspondence
• Correspondência
• Letters
• Cartas
• Jennings, H. D. (Hubert Dudley)
• Rosa, Henriqueta Madalena
• Rosa, Luiz Miguel Nogueira
• Rosa, João Maria Nogueira
• Dias, Francisco Caetano
• Rosa, Eve
• Rosa, Eileen Anderson
• Pessoa, Fernando