DOROTHY

Barks and his daughter corresponded in several letters about his disease. Here are transcripts (excerpts) of some of them by permission from Dorothy.

 

 

Letter from December 10, 1999
... My leukemia drags along making me weaker as the blood cells turn pink. The afternoons, though, are different. I feel a bit of life in my aching bones. Tomorrow a dealer will be here with 100 reproductions for me to sign at $15 each. I live again! ...
 
 

Letter from December 15, 1999
... Very little chance, however, that I’ll still be around in January 2001. My case of chronic lymphocytic leukemia will have used up the last of my red blood cells by then ...
 
 

Letter from April 23, 2000
... I am beginning to show my age.
This is probably my last hurrah. Currently I feel weaker and more tired all the time. The leukemia is winning. One of these days I’ll sit down to rest, and not have enough vim to rise from the chair again ...

 

 

 

  
http://www.cbarks.dk/thelastlettersa.htm   Date 2010-10-16