Record Number: 19817

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 24 April 1923: 'I am on the train from Victoria to Richmond after a very easy journey. Train from Paris packed & if I had not started at 9.15, I should not have got a corner seat [...]On the station at Paris I suddenly heard: "Mr Woolf, I dont suppose you remember me", looked round, & saw Mrs Dominic Spring-Rice [...] I had a long talk with her on the boat. At Newhaven I bought The Times, opened it, & the first thing that caught my eye was that her father had died yesterday. She certainly did not know. Ought I to have broken the news? At any rate, I didnt.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

24 Apr 1923

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Newhaven

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Leonard Woolf

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

25 Nov 1880

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

n/a

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

report of death of Samuel Garrett

Genre:

Biography, Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

In The Times, 24 April 1923

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

19817

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Frederic Spotts

Title:

Letters of Leonard Woolf

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1990

Vol:

n/a

Page:

227

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, (London, 1990), p. 227, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=19817, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

None