A visual journey through Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s personal library and other Woolf related...

A visual journey through Leonard A visual journey through Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s personal and Virginia Woolf’s personal library and other Woolf related library and other Woolf related collections at the Washington collections at the Washington State University Libraries.State University Libraries.

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Hardy, Thomas. Satires of Circumstances, Lyrics and Reveries with Miscellaneous Pieces. London, Macmillan and Co., 1914 (Inscribed from Virginia Woolf to Leonard Woolf)

1)Who is L.W. and V.W.?

2) What book is inscribed?

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Lives of the most eminent English poets with critical observations on their works to which are added the Preface to Shakespeare, and, The review of The origin of evil by Samuel Johnson with a sketch of the author's life by Sir Walter Scott. London: New York: Frederick Warne and Co., [188-?]

1) Who is goat?

2) Who are Nessa and Thoby?3) What book did they give to the 16-year-old Virginia Stephen?

33rd Birthday tea

Gifts: green purse and this book

Decisions: lease Hogarth House, buy a printing press, get a bull dog probably named John.

What happened on 25 Jan 1915?

WSU MASC copy signed on front pastedown: "J. T. Stephen". WSU MASC copy has drawings by Thoby Stephen on front and back endpapers

Who is the artist?

The life, letters, and journals of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore ; collected and arranged with notes by Sir Walter Scott .. [et al.]. Leslie Stephen annotator

Artist?

Eumenides with introduction and notes by A. Sidgwick. 1895

Poem by Leonard Woolf

Whose handwriting is this?

The speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939 an English translation of representative passages arranged under subjects and edited by Norman H. Baynes. Oxford 1942

Mein Kampf von Adolf Hitler. 1934

William Shakespeare death mask drawn by VW

Artist?

Subject?

The works of William Shakespeare; ed. from the original texts by H. Arthur Doubleday, with the assistance of T. Gregory Foster and Robert Elson.

Fry, Roger. Last Lectures. Cambridge: University Press, 1939

Arber, Edward. An English Garner. London: E. Arber, 1877-1883. Vol. 4

Dickens, Charles. The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman & Hall: H. Milford, [1904?].

The Anatomy of Melancholy. 1676

WSU MASC copy inscribed on front endpaper: "Adeline Virginia Stephen. October 1902. from Violet Dickinson".

Also in the Woolf library the 1632 and 1893 editions

Art work and hand proof pulls for Allen Lane's 1945 edition of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Some of the drawings include pencil notes in Grant's hand. Includes part of the printed text of the poem with notes, as well as an envelope addressed to Duncan Grant marked "Proofs for the Ancient Mariner." 15 items

One typescript letter signed by Virginia Woolf from Monk's House, dated December 17th, 1939, and one manuscript postcard written on Leonard Woolf's stationery, also signed by Virginia Woolf. In the letter Virginia Woolf replies to a question proposed by Heffer regarding the usefulness of propaganda and empathizes with his life in camp. She offers to send him a copy of Leonard Woolf's recently published Barbarians at the Gate and any of her own works. Virginia Woolf writes in her postcard, which most likely accompanied the books mentioned in the previous letter, that she cannot publish Heffer's poems and suggests that he try the Daily Telegraph.

Ronald Heffer was an aspiring author who wrote poetry and prose about vegetarianism and slaughterhouses

Letter, [1933] May 4, 52 Tavistock Square [London] to [Bianca Weiss].

Autograph letter, signed, mainly in Italian, discussing Woolf's upcoming trip to Italy and other matters, from Virginia Woolf to her Italian teacher, Bianca Weiss. Weiss' name is not given in the letter; she is addressed as "Carissima Signora." The teacher's identity is found in an earlier letter from Woolf to Vita Sackville-West (February 14, 1933; published in The Letters of Virginia Woolf, ed. Nicolson, V, pp. 157, 175).

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