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 71
... Tangalla , thirty miles or so away . There was no railway and about once a month I drove or rode to Tangalla and stayed a night or two there in the Government Rest House . One evening on my arrival I found the Duttons in the Rest House ...
... Tangalla , thirty miles or so away . There was no railway and about once a month I drove or rode to Tangalla and stayed a night or two there in the Government Rest House . One evening on my arrival I found the Duttons in the Rest House ...
Page 178
... Tangalla , 26 miles to the west , the largest town in my District , I found Southorn , the District Judge , and Hodson , the Superintendent of Police , and we dined together . When I went on circuit 20 miles east to Tissa- maharama , I ...
... Tangalla , 26 miles to the west , the largest town in my District , I found Southorn , the District Judge , and Hodson , the Superintendent of Police , and we dined together . When I went on circuit 20 miles east to Tissa- maharama , I ...
Page 255
... Tangalla , 71 Templer , G. D. , 98–102 Templer , Judge , 136-137 Tennis , Sacrament of , 44-47 ; 135 Tissamaharama , 175 ; 199 Tooth , Buddha's , 142–145 ; 159 ; 162 Twynam , Sir William , 104- 105 Tyrrell , Sir , F. G. , 134 ; 136 ...
... Tangalla , 71 Templer , G. D. , 98–102 Templer , Judge , 136-137 Tennis , Sacrament of , 44-47 ; 135 Tissamaharama , 175 ; 199 Tooth , Buddha's , 142–145 ; 159 ; 162 Twynam , Sir William , 104- 105 Tyrrell , Sir , F. G. , 134 ; 136 ...
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