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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Page 75
... Police . In a letter to Lytton I tell him of an incident which shows the kind of thing one had to do as a Superintendent of Police . A Police Constable came to my bungalow early in the morning and told me that a small boy had ...
... Police . In a letter to Lytton I tell him of an incident which shows the kind of thing one had to do as a Superintendent of Police . A Police Constable came to my bungalow early in the morning and told me that a small boy had ...
Page 79
... Police Magistrate and only acted occasionally as Superintendent of Police , and one soon found , as I said above , that it was extremely difficult to prevent effectively the primitive and illegal methods of the police and headmen in ...
... Police Magistrate and only acted occasionally as Superintendent of Police , and one soon found , as I said above , that it was extremely difficult to prevent effectively the primitive and illegal methods of the police and headmen in ...
Page 90
... Police . Stevenson and I shared a bungalow . I was also Addi- tional Police Magistrate , and when I had time helped with the supervision of the camp . The work of the Koddu Superintendents was onerous and exhausting . In theory the ...
... Police . Stevenson and I shared a bungalow . I was also Addi- tional Police Magistrate , and when I had time helped with the supervision of the camp . The work of the Koddu Superintendents was onerous and exhausting . In theory the ...
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