Growing, an Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911The author's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. |
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Leonard Woolf. After a year or two I don't think I shall write letters at all . In a dim way , of course , I can ... writing down the evidence , listening to the proctors and wit- nesses , thinking of questions to ask , trying to make up ...
Leonard Woolf. After a year or two I don't think I shall write letters at all . In a dim way , of course , I can ... writing down the evidence , listening to the proctors and wit- nesses , thinking of questions to ask , trying to make up ...
Page 107
... writing . This applied even to Government servants . He would never see the head clerk or the kachcheri Mudlayar , who ... write on the principle that he could express his meaning in one word where anyone else would require a minimum of ...
... writing . This applied even to Government servants . He would never see the head clerk or the kachcheri Mudlayar , who ... write on the principle that he could express his meaning in one word where anyone else would require a minimum of ...
Page 172
... writing . If two people are separated for years and by thousands of miles , they can write to each other either every week or only at long intervals . After two or three years I ceased to write to Lytton once a week , partly because I ...
... writing . If two people are separated for years and by thousands of miles , they can write to each other either every week or only at long intervals . After two or three years I ceased to write to Lytton once a week , partly because I ...
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