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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... ment Agent and the Archaeological Commissioner , and there may have been also , but of this I am uncertain , the District Judge and the Police Magistrate . We were all civil servants . They were all very friendly and wanting to put the ...
... ment Agent and the Archaeological Commissioner , and there may have been also , but of this I am uncertain , the District Judge and the Police Magistrate . We were all civil servants . They were all very friendly and wanting to put the ...
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... ment . I did not know anything about him and I was that afternoon extremely busy , but one was continually engaged in that kind of transaction and I had the clerk in and told him to put the thing through in the usual way . Some weeks ...
... ment . I did not know anything about him and I was that afternoon extremely busy , but one was continually engaged in that kind of transaction and I had the clerk in and told him to put the thing through in the usual way . Some weeks ...
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... ment or some high official would come to my District on official business and he would stay the night with me . Twice in my three years I had to entertain the Governor on an official visit of some days . During the open shooting season ...
... ment or some high official would come to my District on official business and he would stay the night with me . Twice in my three years I had to entertain the Governor on an official visit of some days . During the open shooting season ...
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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 District Dutton Elephant Pass Empress Empress Eugénie Engelbrecht extremely 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 Uva Province verandah village Walasmulla walked water hole Woolf