Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2"Leonard Woolf, aged twenty-four, went forth to help rule the British Empire. He returned home to London at thirty-one an older and wiser man. Soon afterward, he married Virginia Stephen. Growing is the story of the years in between, just before the growth of the Bloomsbury Group in London." -- Dust jacket. |
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... office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the Province , and there the Government Agent had his Residence . Districts were in the charge of an Assistant Government Agent ( the A.G.A. ) , a civil servant of ...
... office or offices , the kachcheri , was always in the chief town of the Province , and there the Government Agent had his Residence . Districts were in the charge of an Assistant Government Agent ( the A.G.A. ) , a civil servant of ...
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... ( Office Assistant to the Government Agent ) who might have anything from one to six years ' service ; the junior was called a Cadet , and every civil servant when he first arrived was attached to some provincial kachcheri as Cadet . It ...
... ( Office Assistant to the Government Agent ) who might have anything from one to six years ' service ; the junior was called a Cadet , and every civil servant when he first arrived was attached to some provincial kachcheri as Cadet . It ...
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... Office Assistant , a curious building up on a bank behind the great Temple of the Tooth , the Dalada Maligawa . It was a dark house , rather gloomy . For the first three months another civil servant lived with me , the Superintendent of ...
... Office Assistant , a curious building up on a bank behind the great Temple of the Tooth , the Dalada Maligawa . It was a dark house , rather gloomy . For the first three months another civil servant lived with me , the Superintendent of ...
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1817 LIBRARIES afternoon Anuradhapura Arabs Arachchi asked Assistant Government Agent Baron Blixen became boat Buddhist buffaloes bullock cart bungalow cattle Ceylon Civil Service CHIGAN civil servant Colombo Court curious deal deer dhows District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht enquiry face felt Game Sanctuary Giruwa Pattu Governor Hambantota Hambantota District head headmen Jaffna kachcheri Kandy Kandyan Kataragama kind knew koddu lagoon Leonard Woolf leopard letter to Lytton lewaya licences lived looked Magampattu Mannar ment MICHIGAN miles mind months morning never night Office Assistant one's oysters Pearl Fishery planters play Police Magistrate Province remember Rest House riding rinderpest road round salt sand seemed shooting side Sinhalese Southorn strange suddenly Superintendent of Police talked Tamil Tangalla temple tennis thing Tissa Tissamaharama told took town trees Twynam UNIV Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf