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Leonard Woolf

  

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Leonard Woolf : article on 'the politician and the intellectual'

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 : Empire and Commerce in Africa

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

  

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