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Leonard and Virginia Woolf : newspaper report of US presidential message

Thursday 24 October 1918: 'Having walked across Bushy [sic] Park [...] we took tram to Kingston & there heard the paper boys shouting out about the President's message [regarding negotiations toward armistice], which we bought & devoured in the [train.]'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard and Virginia Woolf     Print: Newspaper

Leonard and Virginia Woolf : Epistle

Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both refreshing. Your translations and the two conversations were equally or even more refreshing. By a curious coincidence I had been reading Horace's satires after an interval of I don't know how many years. I never read the classics except in bed before I get up in the morning and I nearly always read Greek. But the other day I thought I would begin Horace again and began the Satires. I liked it better than I had expected for I had recollections of being bored by Horace's hexameters. Your translations are extraordinarily satisfactory and satisfying.'

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

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