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Henry Festing Jones : Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Memoir

Sunday 28 December 1919, following illness with influenza: 'I've read two vast volumes of the Life of Butler; & am racing through Greville Memoirs -- both superbly fit for illness. Butler has the effect of paring the bark off feelings: all left a little raw, but vivid -- a lack of sap though [goes on to comment further on Butler and his biographer, Henry Festing Jones]]'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

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