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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 21,1 905 A cataclysm is hourly expected here. Yesterday a headman came
...
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 21,1 905 A cataclysm is hourly expected here. Yesterday a headman came
...
Page 132
It is a 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 cr three hours I remember after 53
...
It is a 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 cr three hours I remember after 53
...
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, Sir, ...
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, Sir, ...
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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 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Political scientists Sri Lanka |
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