Description
The collection consists primarily of letters from English writer Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) to college roommate and friend
Saxon Sydney-Turner,
including thirty-eight letters date from Woolf's college days at the University 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 his wife, Virginia Woolf.
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."
Background
Leonard Sidney Woolf (1880-1969) was an English author, political essayist, and social reformer. He was a member of the Bloomsbury
group--a group of friends, writers, artists, and intellectuals.
He was married to author and fellow Bloomsbury member Virginia Woolf.
Extent
67 pieces in 1 box
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