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About three months after I went to live in Dutton ' s bungalow , he told me one
evening that he had had a most unpleasant case to try that morning . The Tamil
advocate in question had brought a case against a young Burgher girl for abuse
and ...
About three months after I went to live in Dutton ' s bungalow , he told me one
evening that he had had a most unpleasant case to try that morning . The Tamil
advocate in question had brought a case against a young Burgher girl for abuse
and ...
Page 108
And the answer to that was : “ You are receiving in this office 500 letters a day , or
13 , 000 a month . ... letters would continually increase and eventually you would
be answering letters today which you received months and years ago .
And the answer to that was : “ You are receiving in this office 500 letters a day , or
13 , 000 a month . ... letters would continually increase and eventually you would
be answering letters today which you received months and years ago .
Page 173
... accurately described in the following letter which I wrote to Lytton about a
month after I arrived in Hambantota : 2nd Oct ... Ceylon I have often been on the
point of writing in the last months and never quite reached it , perhaps because I
knew ...
... accurately described in the following letter which I wrote to Lytton about a
month after I arrived in Hambantota : 2nd Oct ... Ceylon I have often been on the
point of writing in the last months and never quite reached it , perhaps because I
knew ...
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| Title | Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2 Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Leonard Woolf Volume 2 of Woolf, Leonard: An autobiography of the years |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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