Divinely Agnes

Dotting I's and Gaping G's
You cannot even begin to know how much time I've spent in the last 2 weeks looking at Agnes Moorehead's signature. Every time period has been covered from her college years to the "Bewitched" years. I've compared. I've questioned. I've looked at loops and gaps. I've seen connections and disconnections and this letter I've talked about just keeps agreeing with me at every turn. The letter in and of itself is a startling find and frankly folks it has blown my wee little mind. R
The signatures match. The language is right. While it is next to impossible to determine where they met I think we can all agree that they knew each other quite well. I've looked at the movements of Agnes, the only way I can, via newspaper articles and believe me folks it is a fact that they may have crossed trails so many times it's not even funny.

I digress though because this is still about one of the most important things to come to light since "Boze Hadleigh's" interview with her. I would even go a step further and say that interview leads us directly back to this letter. There are a few key parts that mesh with the tone of this letter 1000%.

1. Agnes refers to her relationships with women as "But I don't want anyone misinterpreting what was beautiful and even spiritual." and that ideal connects right to the ethereal language of the letter. Especially in the line that says; "But more than the ecstasy of flesh I miss your soul." If you don't consider that spiritual let alone beautiful I don't know what is.

1. "Women operate on a different plane; the feelings are emotional, not physical." Please see item number 1. 
2. "Men are this-sexual or that sexual, but females, in that sense, are a different species. A woman may love a person who is this or that male or female. Love doesn't have a sex." Please review the letter in the first post about this and see item number 1 as well.
3. "Well, I have loved women of course." Yup see the letter and every other item here.
4. "With two women, it's more difficult to know where love leaves off and the other begins.  With men, it's clearer." See every item here and reread that letter.
5. "Why bring up sex? That's men's concern or habit.  They talk that way and want to drag women down to their level, to have no class." No matter how you cut it not a big fan of men apparently. Please see everything else in this blog having to do with this subject.
6. "If I make a statement to you  know, it will be used and misinterpreted and one way or another it will represent me, if it's controversial or shocking enough, in who knows how many future books." Speaks for itself really.

I know there are people out there who will debate this until the cows come home and to them, I say that is your right. What people might want to consider is that I, myself, have had personal experience with a much older woman. I can also assure you that, like Agnes, she had been married and that, like Agnes, nobody in their right mind ever looked at her thinking wow she's a lesbian. She was born in 1925 and was a dyed in the wool Mormon. Chew on that for a little while. She was born in Salt Lake City and she, like Agnes, had very devout parents dedicated to their religion. I'm just saying if you're going to use the argument that Agnes was married and came from a religious family you need to look at her from a different angle. Unlike the woman I was involved with Agnes was a young adult during the 1920's. The 20's were a time of fluid sexuality and highly open minds. Women who were born around 1900 also viewed sexuality from a Victorian viewpoint. Romantic friendship had been going on forever and was seen as "preparation" for marriage. So why am I babbling on about this? Handwriting folks, handwriting.

The signatures on the bottom are both from 1965. The two examples on the top from the 1937 letter. Please note that 3 of these handwriting examples match and one appears to be markedly different. The first 1965 signature is almost identical to the one on the letter. The second 1965 is left slanted and her name is very severe at first and the florid at the end doesn't match as well. The reason this is very important is that the first 3 handwriting examples, along with many others that would take forever to compare, is that they are examples of personal handwriting. The check had to do with Sean's time in the United Kingdom, very personal and we know the context of the first 2. The bottom signature was made out to a store and there was no personal connection there. It is an autograph not a signature.  If you want to know the woman look beyond "Bewitched" and her public persona. Look at her personal items things that meant something to her and you'll find her there. Agnes was not Endora even though a large part of that character is laden with what we assume is Agnes. It is laden with those things she wanted us to see. 

In her own words:

" My work anyone can see.  I never really cared to share anything with the public, besides my work."