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VIRGINIA WOOLF

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VIRGINIA WOOLF
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>VIRGINIA WOOLF </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Woolf Discusses Roger Fry Biography</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><BR><BR>(1882-1941). English novelist and critic whose stream of consciousness and poetic technique is reflected in her novels <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i> (1925) and <i>To the Lighthouse</i> (1927). She and her siblings established what became known as the Bloomsbury group, a circle of London literati, which included her husband, writer Leonard Woolf. Together they founded the Hogarth Press. ALS, 1p, 8vo, Rodmell near Lewes, Sussex, Aug 13, 1940. On address imprinted letterhead to Mrs. Williams. Nice content. “<i>I am of course particularly glad that you, who knew Roger Fry so well, should think that I have given a true picture of him. It was a very difficult task, partly because of his extraordinary many sidedness; & I was very much afraid that I had failed to convey anything like the whole of him. I found your letters of the greatest value for the Italian Chapters...I don’t remember your coming to see my father, but I have a vivid memory of sitting opposite you in a railway carriage, I think gong to Cambridge, & listening to your talk with my half brother George Duckworth. You had just come back from South Africa.</i>..” Light scattered foxing; normal folds; slight brushing of ink in last initial; light edge wear; o/w VG/Fine example. This letter does not appear in <i>Leave the Letters Till We’re Dead: The Letters of Virginia Woolf 1936-1941</i>, ed. by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann. The recipient was probably Dorothy Williams (d. 1948), wife of Arthur Frederic Basil Williams (1867-1950), Professor History at Edinburgh University, 1925-37, and a friend of Roger Fry whom he had met in the 1890s. Woolf’s <i>Roger Fry: A Biography</i> was published Jul 25, 1940, less than a year before her death.</span></p>