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Benedict Nicolson

  

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Benedict Nicolson : letter to Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf to Benedict Nicolson, 13 August 1940: '[opens] Just as I began to read your letter, an air raid warning sounded. I'll put down the reflections that occurred to me, as honestly as I can, as you put down your reflection of reading my life of Roger Fry while giving air raid alarms at Chatham [goes on to describe thoughts on reading letter, looking up at raiders overhead, etc].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Manuscript: Letter
  

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