WOOLF, Virginia (1882–1941). Typed letter signed (“Virginia Woolf”) to a Representative of the P.E.N. Club Buenos Aires, 9 August 1935. 2 pages, oblong 16mo (133 x 203 mm), on Monk’s House letterhead, old folds, single hand–correction by Woolf. Written from Woolf’s country Sussex cottage, the author declines an invitation to attend the Congress in August 1936 due to her prior engagements where she “could not be out of England for so long a time as would be necessary”. This was possibly due to her declining mental health and her struggle to revise and complete her eighth novel “The Years” which would bring her close to nervous collapse during the summer of 1936. The P.E.N. Club was an international author’s society of which Vita Sackville–West, Woolf’s confidante and lover, was a member.
WOOLF, Virginia (1882–1941). Typed letter signed (“Virginia Woolf”) to a Representative of the P.E.N. Club Buenos Aires, 9 August 1935. 2 pages, oblong 16mo (133 x 203 mm), on Monk’s House letterhead, old folds, single hand–correction by Woolf. Written from Woolf’s country Sussex cottage, the author declines an invitation to attend the Congress in August 1936 due to her prior engagements where she “could not be out of England for so long a time as would be necessary”. This was possibly due to her declining mental health and her struggle to revise and complete her eighth novel “The Years” which would bring her close to nervous collapse during the summer of 1936. The P.E.N. Club was an international author’s society of which Vita Sackville–West, Woolf’s confidante and lover, was a member.
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