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Violet Hunt : White Rose of Withered Leaf

Thomas Hardy to Violet Hunt, [?Mar 1908]: "'Why should you have wasted a nice copy of your new book upon me -- a recluse who does not read a novel a twelvemonth nowadays. I am reading yours, however ...'"

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Hardy      Print: Book

Violet Hunt : Flurried Years, The

'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Ford's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has sailed in & made matters excruciatingly more disagreeable. She has told several people that V.H. is an admirable and martyred saint & that every word in the book is true.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Ford Madox Ford      Print: Book

Violet Hunt : Flurried Years, The

'I have been too much bothered & depressed by the S.L. ['South Lodge', Fiord's code for Violet Hunt] book to write [...] In the meantime Rebecca [West] naturally has sailed in & made matters excruciatingly more disagreeable. She has told several people that V.H. is an admirable and martyred saint & that every word in the book is true.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Rebecca West      Print: Book

Violet Hunt : Flurried Years, The

'I took the Boni brothers out to lunch at a speak-easy & Albert said (A.) he had read SL's memoirs completely through & could find nothing in it but a most touching tribute to myself & that in it I stand out as a tremendous hero of romance!!!'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Boni      Print: Book

Violet Hunt : I Have This to Say

'I read about your earlier dinner quite by accident in "Books" - & by the way I have never had the copy with your Stephen Crane article. I liked [underlined] very [end underlining] much the article about Ezra - I have read Hemingway's book - It seems pretty good. I like that hard clean sort of effect - but I think it gives also the effect of brittleness - or is that nonsense? It is also rather dazzling & tiring. He has touched me off rather nastily - rather on Jean's lines - So I feel very discouraged! Even you don't quite escape. Still its all of no consequence. Jenny had Violet's book lying about yesterday, which really [underlined] did [end underlining] rather upset me - The Envoi appears to say, that with someone who has had so [underlined] many [end underlining] final grand Passions there will [underlined] never [end underlining] be [underlined] any [end underlining] means of knowing who was really "the" one!

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen      Print: Book

Violet Hunt :  The House of Many Mirrors

'Infinite thanks for the honour [dedication] and for the book ["The House of Many Mirrors"]. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing till I had read those pages you have been so good to dedicate to me.' Hence follow ten lines of praise written in a mixture of French and English.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Violet Hunt : The House of Many Mirrors

'Infinite thanks for the honour and for the book. The copy having reached me two days ago I delayed writing until I had read those pages you have been so good as to dedicate to me.[...] Altogether a treat as mere reader [...].'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

Violet Hunt : Tales of the Uneasy

'I enjoyed your tales, the uneasy ones ["Tales of the Uneasy"]—nasty on any night before going to bed. I wonder which famous case you were thinking of when you wrote “The Tiger Skin”. Was it Penrudduck? That great house is now a desolation, and I believe no visitors go there [...] Some of your stories are rather horrible.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: William Henry Hudson      Print: Book

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