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Page 58
I do not remember how I dealt with the rat . Here is another letter to Lytton which
recalls to me very vividly the atmosphere and savour of those early days in Jaffna
: May 21 , 1905 A cataclysm is hourly expected here . Yesterday a headman ...
I do not remember how I dealt with the rat . Here is another letter to Lytton which
recalls to me very vividly the atmosphere and savour of those early days in Jaffna
: May 21 , 1905 A cataclysm is hourly expected here . Yesterday a headman ...
Page 132
It curious fact that I cannot remember anything about leaving Jaffna or arriving in
Kandy or the journey , which must have taken a whole day , except two or three
hours in the middle of it , and those two or three hours I remember after 53 years
...
It curious fact that I cannot remember anything about leaving Jaffna or arriving in
Kandy or the journey , which must have taken a whole day , except two or three
hours in the middle of it , and those two or three hours I remember after 53 years
...
Page 233
But on my last day in Colombo , a man who had been chief headman of one of
the pattus when I was A.G.A. came to pay his respects to me at the Galle Face
Hotel . After desultory conversation , he suddenly said to me : “ Do you remember
...
But on my last day in Colombo , a man who had been chief headman of one of
the pattus when I was A.G.A. came to pay his respects to me at the Galle Face
Hotel . After desultory conversation , he suddenly said to me : “ Do you remember
...
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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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