(Virginia, writer and publisher, 1882-1941) Autograph letter signed "Virginia Woolf" to Philip Morrell, 3pp., 8vo, Monks House, Rodmell, Lewes, 12 July [1940], to Philip [Morrell], "I was so glad to get your letter. Indirectly I'd heard of your illness, & was wanting more news. You must take up your lodging on the ground floor, & go on living. Far too many of my friends have given that up lately. I am so glad you liked that little article. In fact, Hary-o herself isn’t a patch on some of those great ladies - for example, her cousin Lady Lyttelton; so I picked out Selina [Trimmer] by way of making a story of it. I agree: there’s a richness about the Pagan word entirely lacking in the Puritan… ‘, and the effect of the Second World War, "we are living mostly down here [in Sussex], exposed to raids, but in the air and with flowers, rooks, gulls, and our lovely view", and saying that they do go up to London every other week and asking to come round one evening, the final paragraph enquiring on the latest of his memoir or sketch of Ottoline [Morrell], folds, slightly creased. *** "... go on living. Far too many of my friends have given that up lately." - Eight months after she wrote this letter Virginia Woolf took her own life. "Rodmell is only 3 miles from Newhaven, where the German Ninth Army would have landed if operation Sea Lion had been carried out. The Woolfs could not know that both of them were already on Himmler's list for immediate arrest, but they were aware of the danger to a Jew and his wife. In 1940 Leonard devised two contingency plans for their joint suicide, though at this point Virginia hoped for ten years more and to finish her novel. But towards the end of the year and early in 1941 she lost confidence that she could reach a wider audience and began to think there was no cure for womanishness bred by manliness-‘both so hateful’ (Letters, 25 Jan 1941)." - Oxford DNB.
(Virginia, writer and publisher, 1882-1941) Autograph letter signed "Virginia Woolf" to Philip Morrell, 3pp., 8vo, Monks House, Rodmell, Lewes, 12 July [1940], to Philip [Morrell], "I was so glad to get your letter. Indirectly I'd heard of your illness, & was wanting more news. You must take up your lodging on the ground floor, & go on living. Far too many of my friends have given that up lately. I am so glad you liked that little article. In fact, Hary-o herself isn’t a patch on some of those great ladies - for example, her cousin Lady Lyttelton; so I picked out Selina [Trimmer] by way of making a story of it. I agree: there’s a richness about the Pagan word entirely lacking in the Puritan… ‘, and the effect of the Second World War, "we are living mostly down here [in Sussex], exposed to raids, but in the air and with flowers, rooks, gulls, and our lovely view", and saying that they do go up to London every other week and asking to come round one evening, the final paragraph enquiring on the latest of his memoir or sketch of Ottoline [Morrell], folds, slightly creased. *** "... go on living. Far too many of my friends have given that up lately." - Eight months after she wrote this letter Virginia Woolf took her own life. "Rodmell is only 3 miles from Newhaven, where the German Ninth Army would have landed if operation Sea Lion had been carried out. The Woolfs could not know that both of them were already on Himmler's list for immediate arrest, but they were aware of the danger to a Jew and his wife. In 1940 Leonard devised two contingency plans for their joint suicide, though at this point Virginia hoped for ten years more and to finish her novel. But towards the end of the year and early in 1941 she lost confidence that she could reach a wider audience and began to think there was no cure for womanishness bred by manliness-‘both so hateful’ (Letters, 25 Jan 1941)." - Oxford DNB.
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