Growing: an autobiography of the years 1904 to 1911Woolf's account of his seven years as a civil servant in Ceylon. "He has a seemingly effortless way with words which is beautiful and spellbinding" (J. M. Edelstein, New Republic). Index; photographs. |
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... flaming red or a strange delicate mixture of pink and blue. When I arrived in
Jaffna, I was met by the Office Assistant, Wilfrid Thomas Southorn, who eventually
became Sir W. T. Southorn, Governor of Gambia, and who married my sister
Bella.
... flaming red or a strange delicate mixture of pink and blue. When I arrived in
Jaffna, I was met by the Office Assistant, Wilfrid Thomas Southorn, who eventually
became Sir W. T. Southorn, Governor of Gambia, and who married my sister
Bella.
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In provincial kachcheris the G.A. always had two young civil servants immediately
under him who did the office work, ... Of these two the senior was the O.A. (Office
Assistant to the Government Agent) who might have anything from one to six ...
In provincial kachcheris the G.A. always had two young civil servants immediately
under him who did the office work, ... Of these two the senior was the O.A. (Office
Assistant to the Government Agent) who might have anything from one to six ...
Page 170
I was only a year in Kandy in the post of Office Assistant, for having arrived there
in August, 1907, I left in August, 1908, to take up my duties as Assistant
Government Agent, Hambantota, in the Southern Province. I had less than four
years' ...
I was only a year in Kandy in the post of Office Assistant, for having arrived there
in August, 1907, I left in August, 1908, to take up my duties as Assistant
Government Agent, Hambantota, in the Southern Province. I had less than four
years' ...
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