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The friendship between P.L. Travers and Helen Keller is a little-known fact and one that was brought to my attention by a generous reader of this blog. I am forever grateful to my readers who share my interest in the world of P.L. Travers and Mary Poppins and freely share their knowledge with me.
A few letters kept in the archives of Helen Keller reveal that she and Polly Thomson stayed at P.L. Travers’s home during their visit to the UK in 1946. Helen Keller recollects the visit in these words:
“How often Polly and I recall the cozy evenings we spent with you, Camillus, and Moya by the fire in that dear, war-tried little house, surrounded by objects upon which your artistry has bestowed a fairy grace! “
And in another letter:
“I prefer to tell you how two pilgrims in search of ways to succor the war-blinded of Europe were rested and cheered by their visits with you, Moya and darling Camillius. Besides taking you to our hearts we loved your house, bomb-wounded yet warm and sweet to the core, your fire crackling with a cheery message of peace that shall someday inundate all homes, the simple hospitality making us feel natural and free instead of feeling “guests,” and the talk on whose wings the hours flew unnoticed.“
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Steely, self-centred, controlling — the Mary Poppins I knew
He was a rural bank manager in Australia. He fell into disgrace, became an alcoholic and died in his early forties, leaving Pamela to the charity of some aunts. Pamela was looking for a father for most of her life, and made up for her loss by creating the idealistic father figure of the bank manager Mr Banks in Mary Poppins. Pamela was a contrary, divided, hypochondriac of ambiguous sexuality — and Mary Poppins, her cure-all magic nanny, satisfied her need to escape from reality into fantasy and was also a wonderful tonic for millions of children.
I would never have met Pamela but for the fact that she was a friend of my grandfather, old Joe Hone, friend and biographer of Yeats and George Moore. And from him she had adopted my younger brother Camillus in 1940. He was a twin with his brother Anthony who, with another four children, were all to be abandoned by our parents in London. She picked up Camillus in Dublin from my grandfather, where he had been landed with Anthony.
Joseph Hone, who lived with Pamela Travers and his younger brother Camillus in the 50s.
My grandfather, who had already been dumped with me and my sister Geraldine in three previous years, was anxious to get shot of the twins as soon as possi
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P. L. Travers
Australian-British novelist, actress and reporter (1899–1996)
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