Hi. Indeed, I also get chills whenever I read Anastasia's precis of "Evelyn Hope" and her other writings.
By the way, some of you might have noticed that the precis/summary that Anastasia wrote, "Evelyn Hope" became a song for a musical play about AA in 2004...Has anybody listened to it on the web? (Also this site has a great lecture by Peter Kurth in mp3) I found thie site when I was doing a research for my thesis at school.
"Unbekannt: A New Musical Based on the Life of Anna Anderson"
http://silvertone.princeton.edu/~wjoyce/unbekannt.htmlhttp://silvertone.princeton.edu/~wjoyce/synopsis.html(Click the "Prologue" and mp3 starts)
I did quote Anastasia's "Evelyn Hope" for my paper and I thought that Anastasia was a "silent observer (I'm not good at naming though)" when she wrote something. I compared hers with the poem by Robert Browning and Browning wrote about Evelyn and the man whom Evelyn loved in such a romantic way, and Anastasia wrote about them in a simple way, but something's strong in Anastasia's writing, like in the last lines, "when ever[sic] it will be that." I wondered why and encountered a book entitled
The House of Special Purpose: An Intimate Portrait of the Last Days of the Russian Imperial Family by J.C. Trewin and in page 75,
Anastasia's writing is rather harder to read than her sister's. [......] Suddenly, in the midst of the dictated paragraphs and of the prose renderings, plodding on with a charming naivete, misspellings and all, and powdered with Gibbes's corrections, there occurs a single fragment of Anastasia's own experience.Anastasia's "Evelyn Hope" might sound naivete but unforgettable.
aya-anya