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NewmanL/A/A1/2/4
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GB 275 NewmanL/A/A1/2/4
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ALS to Lyn Newman
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- 1 Aug. 1931 (Creation)
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1p In original envelope. paper
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Thanks Lyn for her letter. Complains of his own illness and depression. Describes his stay at Long Barn with Vita Sackville-West, Raymond Mortimer and Dorothy Wellesley during which they were all invalids. Mentions Vita's son Ben Nicolson. Invites Lyn to Sussex and proposes she also visit Rodmell. Reports that he has almost finished the Merimee letters. Discusses Virginia Woolf's novel "The Waves", which he says Vanessa has a copy of in order to design the cover. Refers to a "heart-to-heart" talk about the Hogarth Press that he had with Frankie Birrell and others.
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- Mortimer, Charles Raymond Bell (1895-1980) author and literary critic (Subject)
- Sackville-West, Victoria Mary 'Vita' (1892-1962) afterwards Nicolson, poet, novelist and biographer (Subject)
- Bell, Vanessa (1879-1961) painter (Subject)
- Woolf, Adeline Virginia (1882-1941) novelist, essayist and critic (Subject)
- Wellesley, Dorothy Violet (1889-1956) née Ashton, poet (Subject)