Saturday 30 January 1915: '[Leonard] was kept late at Hampstead: didn't get home till 10.15
[...] He read Janet "The Three Jews".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf Manuscript: Unknown
Sunday 31 January 1915: 'After tea [...] I started reading The Wise Virgins, & I read it straight
on until bedtime, when I finished it. My opinion is that it is a remarkable book; very bad in
parts; first rate in others. A writer's book, I think, because only a writer perhaps can see why
the good parts are so very good, & why the bad parts aren't very bad [...] I was made very
happy by reading this: I like the poetic side of L. & it gets a little smothered in Blue-books, &
organisations.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Manuscript: Unknown
7 January 1920: 'Reading Empire & Commerce to my genuine satisfaction, with an impartial delight in the closeness, passion & logic of it; indeed its a good thing now & then to read one's husband's work attentively.'
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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf
Maurice B. Wright to Leonard Woolf, 15 September 1913:
'I should like to thank you for your book The Village in the Jungle. I have enjoyed it more than anything I have read for many a day.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Maurice B. Wright Print: Book
Marie Woolf to Leonard Woolf (reader's son), 11 December 1913:
'I am now returning you the Manuscript [of The Wise Virgins] [...] the reading of which has given me more pain than evidently you intended. ... You thought fit to hold us [Woolf family] all up [...] to ridicule, contempt and pity. ... You have not convinced me one jot that the people at Rickstead [i.e. Putney, Woolf family home] are one bit less valuable to the common working of the Universe, than are the people at Bloomsbury [...] this style of writing is unworthy of you [...] If you publish the book as it stands, I feel there will be a serious break between us'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Marie Woolf Manuscript: Unknown
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe, to Leonard Woolf, 29 July 1940:
'I read your article on the Politician and the Intellectual, in the New Statesman of July 20th, and I hope that you will excuse a much older man who has enjoyed the company of many of both sorts for troubling you with a few observations on it [goes on to comment further].'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes Print: Serial / periodical
Leonard Woolf to Margery Perham, 24 August 1955:
'Did you ever come across [Charles] Temple, who was in the Nigerian Civil Service [...] He read Empire and Commerce after his retirement and when he lived in Granada; hearing that Virginia and I were going to stay in the mountains above, he asked us to come and spend the night at his house. I had a long talk with him and he was very bitter against [Lord] Lugard [imperialist attacked by Woolf in text], claiming that a great deal of the credit for indirect rule etc., whicb Lugard claimed himself, ought to have gone to him, Temple.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Temple Print: Book
E. M. Forster to Leonard Woolf, before 24 May 1912:
'Dear Woolf
'It's a good story. Try the English Review -- I know of no other magazine that will pay for erections and excrement. Suggestions. New title. Shorten the Introduction and simplify its style [...]
'I enjoyed the story more the second reading, but still feel the touch of "scold" about it, that often goads me in Kipling [...] your man who has done & felt things is a little too anxious to give those who haven't a bad time.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster Manuscript: Unknown
