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FROM: Elvita Landau <[removed]@sdln.net>
DATE: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:54:16 -0600
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Elvita Landau, Director
Brookings Public Library
515 Third Street
Brookings, SD 57006-2077
phone: 605 692-9407
fax: 605 692-9386
www.brookingslibrary.org
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FROM: Paula Davino <[removed]@kentnet.dtcc.edu>
DATE: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:17:49 -0500 (EST)
Paula Davino
Assistant Director
Dover Public Library
Dover, Delaware
[removed]@kentnet.dtcc.edu
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Elvita Landau wrote:
> A patron remembers reading a book where an old woman said she would die when
> the leaves fell from the tree outside her window. Every day she would watch
> them fall and every night someone would glue them back on. Does this ring
> any bells with anyone?
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Elvita Landau, Director
> Brookings Public Library
> 515 Third Street
> Brookings, SD 57006-2077
> phone: 605 692-9407
> fax: 605 692-9386
> www.brookingslibrary.org
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
FROM: "Marsha Valance " <[removed]@mpl.org>
DATE: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:00:45 -0600
Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
<[removed]@mpl.org>
>>> [removed]@sdln.net 03/30/00 12:54PM >>>
A patron remembers reading a book where an old woman said she would die when
the leaves fell from the tree outside her window. Every day she would watch
them fall and every night someone would glue them back on. Does this ring
any bells with anyone?
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Elvita Landau, Director
Brookings Public Library
515 Third Street
Brookings, SD 57006-2077
phone: 605 692-9407
fax: 605 692-9386
www.brookingslibrary.org
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FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
DATE: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:20:02 -0600
FROM: [removed]@aol.com
DATE: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 14:24:27 EST
<< A patron remembers reading a book where an old woman said she would die
when
the leaves fell from the tree outside her window. Every day she would watch
them fall and every night someone would glue them back on. Does this ring
any bells with anyone?
>>
Yes. This is an O'Henry story. It was made into a movie which was included
with 2 or 3 other O'Henry stories. It's about 2 sisters, one of whom is very
ill. A painter lives in or near the building (it's the dead of winter). The
ill sister is convinced she will die when the last leaf falls from the tree
(or vine) outside her window. The painter risks (and loses) his life in his
(successful) efforts to paint the leaf onto the wall outside the window. The
sister sees the leaf and lives. The painter is found dead. I believe the
movie version of the story is called THE LAST LEAF. I checked, and that is
the title of the original story, as well. The painter's name is Mr. Behrmann.
Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance writer/former librarian
FROM: [removed]@ci.burlington.wa.us (Janice Burwash, Burlington Public Library)
DATE: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:55:43 -0800
>A patron remembers reading a book where an old woman said she would die when
>the leaves fell from the tree outside her window. Every day she would watch
>them fall and every night someone would glue them back on. Does this ring
>any bells with anyone?
>
>
Janice Burwash, Resource Coordinator
Burlington Public Library
900 East Fairhaven Ave
Burlington, WA 98233
Phone (360) 755-0760 Fax (360) 755-0717
[removed]@sos.net
FROM: Dorothy Szczepaniak <[removed]@wpld.alibrary.com>
DATE: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:58:52 -0600
Elvita Landau wrote:
> A patron remembers reading a book where an old woman said she would die when
> the leaves fell from the tree outside her window. Every day she would watch
> them fall and every night someone would glue them back on. Does this ring
> any bells with anyone?
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Elvita Landau, Director
> Brookings Public Library
> 515 Third Street
> Brookings, SD 57006-2077
> phone: 605 692-9407
> fax: 605 692-9386
> www.brookingslibrary.org
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FROM: [removed]@aol.com
DATE: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:19:59 EST
FROM: Sheri Alexander <[removed]@yahoo.com>
DATE: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:02:36 -0800 (PST)
--- Elvita Landau <[removed]@sdln.net> wrote:
> A patron remembers reading a book where an old woman
> said she would die when
> the leaves fell from the tree outside her window.
> Every day she would watch
> them fall and every night someone would glue them
> back on. Does this ring
> any bells with anyone?
>
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Elvita Landau, Director
> Brookings Public Library
> 515 Third Street
> Brookings, SD 57006-2077
> phone: 605 692-9407
> fax: 605 692-9386
> www.brookingslibrary.org
>
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>
>
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FROM: "Ms. Alicia Graybill" <[removed]@inetnebr.com>
DATE: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 12:33:19 -0600 (CST)
FROM: Anjan Ray <[removed]@usa.net>
DATE: 2 Apr 00 18:31:12 EAT
Regards
Anjan Ray
***
A patron remembers reading a book where an old woman said she would die when
the leaves fell from the tree outside her window. Every day she would watch
them fall and every night someone would glue them back on. Does this ring
any bells with anyone?
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
DATE: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 11:10:02 PDT
>From: Elvita Landau <[removed]@sdln.net>
>Reply-To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>Subject: Death and leaves
>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:54:16 -0600
>
>A patron remembers reading a book where an old woman said she would die
>when
>the leaves fell from the tree outside her window. Every day she would
>watch
>them fall and every night someone would glue them back on. Does this ring
>any bells with anyone?
>
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Elvita Landau, Director
>Brookings Public Library
>515 Third Street
>Brookings, SD 57006-2077
>phone: 605 692-9407
>fax: 605 692-9386
>www.brookingslibrary.org
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
There is an O. Henry story, "The Last Leaf," in which a young woman has come
to Greenwich Village to paint, falls ill, and becomes convinced she will die
when the ivy on the wall outside her window loses its last leaf. But the
leaf doesn't fall, and doesn't fall, and at last she resolves to get well
and does. In the end we learn that the "leaf" was painted there by an old
German who lives in the building, and who got a chill while doing so and
died of it. This is the only fiction I can remember with a similar
situation.
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
DATE: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 14:08:09 EDT
<< This is a short story called the "Last Leaf", which I remember vividly
-except
that the lady is not old - the "gluer" is. I am slightly unsure the author,
but am pretty definite that one of the following is right (in decreasing
order
of confidence) : Guy de Maupassant, O Henry, Somerset Maugham.
Regards
Anjan Ray
>>
The story is definitely by O'Henry.
Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance writer/former librarian
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