!['... as for the pictures of you, I take these only for my own benefit. [...] primarily they help to fix moments, and you may be sure that they are all perfectly lovely to me, because I have an accurate enough memory to be able to replace the photograph by the original in my mind' (16 August 1935); Emily Hale in the garden of Stamford House, Chipping Campden, 1930s.](/the-eliot-hale-letters/images/gallery/55-hale-emily-in-the-garden-at-chipping-camden-c-1930s.jpg "'... as for the pictures of you, I take these only for my own benefit. [...] primarily they help to fix moments, and you may be sure that they are all perfectly lovely to me, because I have an accurate enough memory to be able to replace the photograph by the original in my mind' (16 August 1935); Emily Hale in the garden of Stamford House, Chipping Campden, 1930s.")
'... as for the pictures of you, I take these only for my own benefit. [...] primarily they help to fix moments, and you may be sure that they are all perfectly lovely to me, because I have an accurate enough memory to be able to replace the photograph by the original in my mind' (16 August 1935); Emily Hale in the garden of Stamford House, Chipping Campden, 1930s.
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