Leonard and Virginia Woolf Insert Papers
Cage 674

Summary Information

Repository
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
Title
Leonard and Virginia Woolf Insert Papers
ID
Cage 674
Date [inclusive]
circa 1875-1974
Extent
1.0 container
Language
English
Abstract
This collection consists of manuscripts, letters, and miscellaneous material that, for a variety of reasons, were placed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in books from their working library.

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Scope and Contents note

The laid in Insert Papers collection from the personal library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf consists of manuscripts, letters, and miscellaneous material that, for a variety of reasons, were placed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in books from their working library. Other casual inserts were slipped into titles that had been sent to them as review copies or as gifts. Most of this insert material, then, has some relationship to the title it was originally associated with although the precise nature of a given item or item-book association is not always clear. Of special interest among the manuscripts are the literary and scholarly fragments, some with definite authorship. Published (printed) insert material was left in the books. The collection is organized chronologically into two series: Series 1, Correspondence, 1909-1974, n.d. and Series 2, Manuscripts, 1875-1938, n.d. This arrangement has been imposed by the archivist.

Where possible, items are minimally described according to elements selected from the information present on documents or that was established by previous research; bracketed information is supplied. The electronic version of this finding aid offers direct World Wide Web links to selected bibliographic records for those copies of books from which a given insert was removed. These records may contain additional information about these items.

For more detailed information on the provenance and scope of Leonard and Virginia Woolf's personal library, see the following journal:á Virginia Woolf Miscellany 22 (Spring 1984).

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries

http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc
Terrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610
509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu

Conditions Governing Access note

The collection is open and available for on-site research use. Researchers will be instructed to wear gloves. Though the images vary widely in their physical condition, reproductions in the form of digital scans and prints will be available for most of the items in the collection.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

This collection of laid in inserts from books that were originally part of the personal library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf (including those books housed in their Monks House and Victoria Square residences in England) became available for purchase shortly after Leonard Woolf's death in 1969. In the ensuing years additional titles from Leonard Woolf's estate surfaced. These were also purchased in whole or in part by the Washington State University Libraries. In 1974 the Libraries purchased a collateral lot of Hogarth Press editions, some from the Woolfs' own collection. The bulk of what now constitutes the Libraries' printed Woolf holdings (and collateral print collections) was purchased in six lots between 1971 and 1983.

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

  • George Allen and Unwin.
  • Heinemann (Firm)
  • Hogarth Press.

Genre(s)

  • Insertions (Provenance)-- England -- 20th century.

Personal Name(s)

  • Bell, Clive, 1881-1964.
  • Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961.
  • Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974.
  • Bosanquet, Theodora.
  • Collins, W.J.(William John Townsend)
  • Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934.
  • Moore, G. E. (George Edward), 1873-1958.
  • Nicolson, Nigel.
  • Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.
  • Sassoon, Philip, Sir, 1888-1939.
  • Spender, Stephen, 1909-
  • Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904.
  • Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932.
  • Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969
  • Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

Subject(s)

  • Bloomsbury group.

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Collection Inventory

 1 Correspondence 1909-1974, undated 

Folder

G.E. Moore to Woolf. 29 January 1909 

General note

Book Call number: BF311 .M6

1

A.V. Dicey to Julian Heward Bell. 4 February 1909 

General note

Book Call number: JF432 .G8 D5

2

Glynde to Woolf. 12 February [19]13 

General note

Book Call number: DT107 .C88 1908

3

O.M.D. to Clive Bell. 5 November 1913 

General note

Book Call number: PR6001 .R78 P6 1928

4

Margaret to Virginia [Woolf]. 3 September 1915 

General note

Book Call number: HQ759 .W6

5

J.C. Squirre to Woolf. 3 March 1916 

General note

Book Call number: HD6477 .S523 1916

6

"The Nation" to Woolf. 1916 

General note

Book Call number: DA565.C4 G3 (volume 4)

7

Unidentified to [Virginia Woolf]. 29 May 1917 

General note

Book Call number: B701 .D5 1900z

8

S.E. Chavasse to Mrs. MacCarthy. circa 1917 

General note

Book Call number: B1656 .E4

9

Stanley Unwin to L.S. Woolf. 12 February 1920 

General note

Book Call number: DB91 .A8

10

E. Blunden to Mr. Woolf. 14 October 1920 

General note

Book Call number: DK254.I8 A5

11

E. Blunden to Mr. Woolf. circa 1920 

General note

Book Call number: DT107 .C5

12

W.J. Turner to Leonard Woolf. 25 January 1921 

General note

Book Call number: HD2321 .E3 1920

13

W.W. Henderson to L.S. Woolf. 24 March 1922 

General note

Book Call number: JC359 .V4

14

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to L. Woolf. 4 August 1922 

General note

Book Call number: PR6023.E4 Z52 1955b

15

W.W. Henderson to Leonard S. Woolf. 1 November 1923 

General note

Book Call number: DD801.S13 O7

16

William Heinemann, Ltd. to [Leonard Woolf]. 8 November 1923 

General note

Book Call number: PR5480 .P24

17

W.J. Townsend Collins to L.S. Woolf. circa 1923 

General note

Book Call number: PR6005.O33 T3

18

Stationery Office, Dublin to The Literary Editor. 3 October 1924 

General note

Book Call number: JF11 .I7 1924

19

Theodora Bosanquet to Elizabeth Robins. circa 1925 

General note

Book Call number: PS2123 .B6

20

The British Office of Indian Affairs to Leonard Woolf. 16 November 1926 

General note

Book Call number: JQ211 .S27X 1926

21

E.H. Jerkins to Mrs. Woolf. 1 March 1928 

General note

Book Call number: DA690 .K783 1926

22

Clive Bell to the Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. 22 February 1929 

General note

Book Call number: PQ2631.R63 A543 1928e

23

E. Blunden to Mrs. Woolf. 3 December 1930 

General note

Book Call number: PR5238 .B5

24

Virginia Woolf to Dear Madam. 10 December 1930 

General note

Book Call number: PR6045.O72O5 (copy 1)

24.1

Leonard Ehrlich to Mrs. Woolf. 10 March 1934 

General note

Book Call number: PS1541 .A1 1927

25

[Unidentified] to Angelica Bell. 9 August 1937 

26

Beetle to Angelica Bell. 10 August 1937 

27

W. Surrey Dane to Mr. Woolf. 3 May 1939 

General note

Book Call number: DA586 .F7

28

Naomi Michison to Leonard and Virginia [Woolf]. circa 1939 

General note

Book Call number: PR6025.I86 A42

29

The Labour Book Service to Leonard Woolf. 5 February 1940 

General note

Book Call number: HX246 .D8 (copy 2)

30

MacMillan & Co. Ltd. to The Literary Editor. 1 April 1940 

General note

Book Call number: DD231.S83 A332

31

LW [Leonard Woolf] to The Hogarth Press. 14 September 1940 

General note

Book Call number: DD231.S83 A332

32

Paulie to Trekkie Parsons. 8 January 1947 

General note

Book Call number: PQ2247 .A2 1926

33

Vanessa Bell to Mr. Gwynne Hughes. 10 February 1957 

General note

Book Call number: PR6045 .O72 M62 (copy 2)

34

R.R. Crossette-Thambian to Leonard Woolf. 5 September 1960. With reply, 26 October 1960. 

General note

Book Call number: DS432.T3 C7

35

Ralph Schoenman to Mr. Woolf. 27 September 1962 

General note

Book Call number: B1649.R94 I5

36

Oliver to Patsy. 6 November 1966 

General note

Book Call number: PS3531.O82 Z65 1965a

37

Philip [Sidney Woolf] to Leonard [Woolf]. circa 1966 

General note

Book Call number: PR6003.I434 Z85

38

Leonard Woolf to J.R. Windle. 22 May 1968 

General note

Book Call number: PR6005.U6 P3 (copy 2)

39

Trekkie Parsons to Mr. G. Donald Smith. 5 December 1973 

40

Nigel Nicolson to Mr. Farrelly. 9 March 1974 

41

Nigel Nicolson to Mr. Farrelly. 17 March 1974 

42

Correspondence with incomplete date or no year. 

Folder

Lilla to Trekkie [Parsons]. 

General note

Book Call number: BF173.F636 T82

43

Bertrand Russell to Virginia [Woolf]. July 13, no year 

44

Philip Sassoon to Virginia [Woolf]. June 13, no year 

General note

Book Call number: TL540.S3 A3

45

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 2 Manuscripts 

Folder

Notes on literature. 1 leaf. Leslie Stephen. circa 1875 

General note

Book Call number: PR625 .W3 (volume 1)

46

Historical notes and map. 1 leaf. Unidentified. circa 1896 

General note

Book Call number: DS471 .W75

47

"Empedocles: Sex[tus] Emp[iricus] VII. 123". 2 leaves. Leonard Woolf. circa 1899 

General note

Book Call number: B168.A1 R5 1888

48

Literary fragment and drawing. 2 leaves. Leonard Woolf. circa 1900 

General note

Book Call number: PA4279 .T7 1888

49

"Grammar. First Exam in Tamil". 4 leaves. Unknown. circa 1905 

General note

Book Call number: PL4751 .P7

50

"To V.S. With a Book". 1 sheet folded. CB [Clive Bell]. 1909 

General note

Book Call number: PR3737 .A1 1776

51

Translation of Mallarmé poem. 1 leaf. Roger Fry? circa 1913 

General note

Book Call number: PQ2344 .A1 1913

52

Notes. 1 leaf. Leonard Woolf. circa 1915 

General note

Book Call number: HC462 .P8 1915

53

"The International Review" (sketch drawing of title page layout.) 1 leaf. Leonard Woolf. circa 1919 

General note

Book Call number: Z250 .C37x

54

"XXI - XXII - XXIII" (typescript poems). 2 leaves. "Stephen Spender Sept.". circa 1930 

General note

Book Call number: PR6037.P47 T84

55

"Peace and Justice at Dumbarton Oaks". Attributed to "A Former Member of the League Secretariat" circa 1938   Typescript. 7 leaves.

56

Manuscripts with no date. 

Folder

Autograph map. 1 leaf. Leonard Woolf. 

General note

Book Call number: DC16 .B16.5 1907

57

Autograph signature "Bunny Garnett"   1 leaf

General note

Book Call number: PR6005.O393 P7 1963a

58

Accounting notes   1 leaf

General note

Book Call number: Z323 .M95 1949

59

Bibliographic notes   1 notecard.

General note

Book Call number: PR6021.I7 M5

60

Bibliographic notes   1 notecard.

General note

Book Call number: PR6013.R35 M57

61

Correspondence note. 1 leaf. Lytton Strachey? 

General note

Book Call number: PR4872 .H4 1847

62

Genealogical notes. 2 leaves. Leslie Stephen? 

General note

Book Call number: PR5600 .E69 (volume 8)

63

"The House". Typescript poem. 1 leaf. Barbara Noel Scott. 

General note

Book Call number: PR6069.C58 I8

64

Literary fragments. 2 leaves. Philip Syndey Woolf? 

General note

Book Call number: PA6801 .A2 1872 (vol. 1)

65

Map and notes   2 leaves.

General note

Book Call number: DS490.N6 I4 1899

66

Travel notes   1 sheet folded.

67

Travel notes   1 leaf.

General note

Book Call number: DF716 .B22 1909

68

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