A Legacy

[poliphilo]

My Great Aunt Enid bequeathed her papers to her favourite great niece who left them to her daughter who deposited them with me. Enid was an interesting person but not, I'm afraid, as interesting as she thought she was- and if we're playing pass the parcel with her literary and artistic remains it's because it's hard to see the point of them. Her diaries are unilluminating, her drawings undistinguished. None of us is going to resort to the bonfire (because- family piety forbids) but I could wish Enid herself had.

My cousin (the one who passed me the stash) says she feels responsible for it- and I say she shouldn't- but actually I feel the same- as if I should be sharing it or promoting it in some way.The dead hand weighs heavy. But who should we share it with?  It's not our fault that Enid is unpublishable.

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

So you'll just let them stay with family until someone dies and the executors have cleaners come in and they junk the stuff? You might as well burn them.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have the heart to burn them myself. I just wouldn't.