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 69
... months with Dutton , I began to urge him to mix with other people and suggested that he should come with me one evening to the tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so , and that fear alone ...
... months with Dutton , I began to urge him to mix with other people and suggested that he should come with me one evening to the tennis courts . At first he refused , but I saw that he was rather anxious to do so , and that fear alone ...
Page 108
... month . So you are in fact answering about 500 letters every day , for otherwise the number of un- answered letters would continually increase and eventu- ally you would be answering letters today which you re- ceived months and years ...
... month . So you are in fact answering about 500 letters every day , for otherwise the number of un- answered letters would continually increase and eventu- ally you would be answering letters today which you re- ceived months and years ...
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... month after I arrived in Hambantota : 2nd Oct. , 1908 Hambantota Ceylon I have often been on the point of writing in the last months and never quite reached it , perhaps because I knew that it would never be the time until you did ...
... month after I arrived in Hambantota : 2nd Oct. , 1908 Hambantota Ceylon I have often been on the point of writing in the last months and never quite reached it , perhaps because I knew that it would never be the time until you did ...
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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