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Leonard Woolf letters to Clive and Julian Bell

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Description: Eighteen letters by Woolf to fellow Bloomsbury friend Clive Bell and nephew Julian Bell discuss British politics prior to WWII and give details of Woolf's involvement in the League of Nations and the Labor Party. There are references to Virginia Woolf throughout the letters, as he discusses family, travel plans, and other personal matters
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1906-1963.
Call number: mssHM 57680-57697
Creator: Woolf, Leonard (1880-1969)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Sotheby's, lot 307, July 1980.
Associated people: Bell, Clive, (1881-1964,); Bell, Julian, (1908-1937,)
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Clive Bell letters to Saxon Sydney-Turner

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A collection of letters, poems and ephemera related to Clive Bell. The letters are from Bell to his friend Saxon Sydney-Turner; they discuss family, travel plans, plays, music, their jointly authored book "Euphrosyne" and other personal subjects. The letters include references to his sister-in-law, Virginia Woolf, and fellow Bloomsbury friends Thoby Stephen and Lytton Strachey. The collection also includes two poems by Clive Bell, "With a box of caramels Boissier" and "Spring;" and one folder of printed material.

mssHM 57610-57631

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Clive Bell letters to Saxon Sydney-Turner

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mssHM 57610-57631

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Leonard Woolf Letters

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Letters from English writer Leonard Woolf to Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner, a college roommate and friend and one of the group of "Apostles" at Cambridge. The letters tell of Woolf's activities and projects while on vacation from Cambridge, of his life as a Civil Servant in Sri Lanka, and a few treat the period after his return to England. Thirty-eight letters date from Woolf's college days at Cambridge and they treat a variety of scholastic subjects (his reading of Plato, Byron etc.) on which he was working during his vacations. Lytton Strachey is mentioned frequently in the letters as some incident concerning him or a fragment of a letter from him is reported. Twenty-two letters date from the period when Woolf served as a Civil Servant in Sri Lanka and they are written from a number of cities and remote outposts throughout the country (Jaffna, Kandy, Hanbantota, Marichchukkadi etc.). Woolf describes with humor his life in Sri Lanka, especially the change in the state of his mind brought on by the long hours of work, the heat, and the isolation from the kind of society he had been used to. Among other things, he describes a public hanging, a meeting of a local Shakespeare society, and his experience of becoming ill in a remote village on one of his circuits of the territory. Four letters date from the period after his return to England in 1911. One letter was written from Spain during his honeymoon there, describing his and Virginia's efforts to communicate with the locals and the omnipresent smell of "stale urine" Most of the letters do not concern literary matters. There are two poems by Woolf contained in the letters: 1) "2:30 AM" in a letter dated Apr. 17, 1901 (HM 42126) 2) "To Ponamma" in a letter dated June 12, 1910 (HM 42179) A "chronological list of mystics", written during Woolf's school days groups various "mystics" by time and nationality. (HM 42119)

mssHM 42119-42183

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Leonard Sidney Woolf note to Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner

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The collection consists primarily of letters from Woolf to Saxon Sydney-Turner, a college roommate and friend. Thirty-eight letters date from Woolf's college days at Cambridge, twenty-two are from the period when Woolf served as a civil servant in Sri Lanka, and four letters date from the period after his return to England in 1911. One letter was written from Spain during his honeymoon with Virginia. Although most of the letters do not concern literary matters, there are two poems by Woolf in the collection: "2:30 A.M." and "To Ponamma."

HM 42181.

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Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell

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A collection of letters from Saxon Sydney-Turner to fellow Bloomsbury friend Clive Bell. The letters discuss mutual friends, including Thoby Stephen, plays, symphonies, their co-authored book Euphrosyne, and other personal matters. The collection also includes one drawing and several poems by Sydney-Turner.

mssHM 57632-57679

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Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell

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mssHM 57632-57679

Leonard Woolf letters to Clive and Julian Bell

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