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RADZIWILL, Lee Bouvier (1933-2019). Typescript with extensive autograph emendations and corrections, n.p., c. 1971. Six pages, 11 x 8.5 in., all but one page being photocopies of an earlier, edited draft with additional holograph notes in ink and pencil (staple holes, lightly toned). Lee Radziwill's notes and comments for a proposed documentary: "Looking at Life Thru a Rear View Mirror" An unusual set of notes, apparently part of a running dialogue concerning the production of a film concerning her life and family. Although the film was never made, the notes offer a revealing picture into how she viewed her past, and the themes she wished to highlight in a proposed documentary. She identifies the overarching themes of the project as "The Ocean", "A Time for Everything", "Timelessness," with Walter Houston's "September Song" to be the musical theme. Most of the specific points, numbered 1 to 24, concern impressions of her childhood: the "glamour of our father and mother 'Black Jack'"; "Jackie and I selling lemonade on the road"; "'Our Secret Hide Out' – it burned and were in trouble"; "My aunt -– Edith Beale – the greatest original and eccentric of the family" and much more. Though eager to offer a revealing story of her early life, to the suggestion that there be a "film of making of the film", she offers an emphatic "NO!" At the conclusion, Lee returns again to the theme: "A time for Everything" which she identifies as "The Main Point From the Bible!" The verso of the final page features a copy of Lee's handwritten transcript of Third Ecclesiastes: "To every thing there is a season..." A fascinating glimpse into Radziwill’s memories of her early years.