Virginia Woolf: Uncollected Letters

(additional to those listed in B. J. Kirkpatrick and Stuart N. Clarke, A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf, 4th ed. [Oxford Clarendon Press, 1997], Section F)

Last updated: 28 February 2003

[F6.1]  Clive Bell, Old Friends: Personal Recollections, London, Chatto & Windus, 1956, 120 (quotation from postcard, [August 1922?]).  Formerly F9.

[F7.1]  Keith Briant, Marie Stopes: A Biography, London, Hogarth Press, 1962, 225 (quotation from letter, [February?] 1941).

[F7.2]  Eileen Mackenzie, The Findlater Sisters: Literature & Friendship, London, John Murray, 1964, 116-17 (letter, 22 October 1927 to Mary Findlater).

[F14.1]  Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., Catalogue 234: Autograph Letters, Historical Documents and Signed Photographs Formed between 1930 and 1979 by the Late R. E. D. Rawlins Esq.  London, [days of sale 2, 3, & 4 June] 1980, 338, lot 1245 (quotation and facsimile of part of undated letter to Dorothy Brett).
        
[F15.1]  Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., [Catalogue of] Valuable Autograph Letters, Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents, London, [days of sale: 20 & 21 July] 1981, 362, item 623 (quotation from letter, 3 June 1935 to Stephen Potter).

[F17.1]  Frances Spalding, Vanessa Bell, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983, 267 (quotation from letter, [September 1934] to Helen Anrep).

[F21.1]  Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1990, 211 (postscript to letter, 10 February 1915 to Lytton Strachey), 229 (postscript to letter, [26 July 1926] to V. Sackville-West), 381 (postscript to letter, [13 June 1913] to Margaret Llewellyn Davies; see also F46).

[F21.2] Bonnie Kime Scott (ed.), The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990, 567 (quotation from letter of 10 November 1928 to Rebecca West).  See also B20.  A shorter quotation from the same letter (but now dated 11 November 1928) appears in the same author's Refiguring Modernism: Volume One, The Women of 1928, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995, 223.

[F23.1]  Kirsty McLeod, A Passion for Friendship: Sibyl Colefax and her Circle, London: Michael Joseph, 1991, 105 (facsimile of undated entry in Sibyl's Birthday Book), 106 (quotations from two undated letters; letter, [?early June 1931]), 107 (quotation from undated letter), 108 (quotations from letters, [March? 1933], [April? 1933], [18? May 1933], [?December 1937]), 109 (quotations from two undated letters); dust-jacket (quotation from letter, [late 1919 or early 1920]).

[F31.1]  Mary Mathis, “The double eye of love”: Virginia Woolf and Mary Hutchinson’, Virginia Woolf: Themes and Variations - Selected Papers from the Second Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf ... 1992, edited by Vara Neverow-Turk & Mark Hussey, New York, Pace University Press, 1993, 337-8, 341-3 (quotations from letters of 29 December 1935 and 30 August 1931, and from a postcard of 1925).

[F37.1]  Diana Higgens, Grace at Charleston, [Charleston Trust], n.d. [c. 1994], p. [6] (undated facsimile typescript postcard to Grace Higgens).

John W. Bicknell (ed.), Selected Letters of Leslie Stephen: Volume 2, 1882-1904, Basingstoke, Hants, Macmillan, 1996, 349 (postscript to letter, 22 February 1887 to James Russell Lowell).

Panthea Reid, Art and Affection: A Life of Virginia Woolf, New York [etc.], Oxford University Press, 1996, 308 (omission from letter no. 1782, [15 July 1927] to V. Sackville-West), 358 (quotation from letter, [1929?] to Vanessa Bell), and 513 (quotation from letter, 1 March [1923?] to Raymond Mortimer).

Marion Shaw, ‘From A Room of One’s Own to A Literature of Their Own, South Carolina Review, Fall 1996, Vol. XXIX, No. 1, 61 (quotations from letter, February 1933 to Winifred Holtby).

Christie’s South Kensington, Autograph letters and Modern First Editions ... 6 June 1997, London, 1997, 18, item 57 (quotation from letter, 3 July 1938 to ‘an unnamed lady’ [Lilian Mitehill or Mitchell]).

Karen V. Kukil, ‘The Frances Hooper Collection of Virginia Woolf Books and Manuscripts’, Humanities Collections, Vol. I, No. 1, 1998, 11 (quotations from letters and postcards, 7 December 1908, 13 February 1912, 17 November 1926, & 7 November 1928 to Lytton Strachey).

Kenneth W. Rendell Gallery Inc., Historical Letters, Manuscripts & Rare Books ..., Wellesley MA & NYC, [1998], 1 page (quotation from correspondence card, 10 April [1930s] to John Sparrow).

Michael Silverman, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Historical Documents: Some Recent Acquisitions, Michael Silverman, London, 1998, No. 3, items 50-2, (quotations from letters, 13 April 1934 to Bella Southorn (see also F43), and 9 December 1928 & 16 January 1929 to André Chaumeix).

Stuart N. Clarke, ‘Letters from Virginia’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, January 1999, No. 1, 12, 14 (letters, 10 August [1930s] to E. McKnight Kauffer and 20 May 1940 to Victoria Ocampo; the latter translated from Spanish by Paul Standish).

Julia Briggs, ‘Between the Texts: Virginia Woolf's Acts of Revision’, Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, 1999, Vol. XII, 165 (quotation from letter, 1 December 1940 to Miss [Winifred] Perkins).

Paul Evans, Virginia Woolf, ‘Bloomsbury’ and the Hogarth Press [catalogue], Sompting, West Sussex, Spring 1999, item 187 (quotation from letter, 10 August [1930s] to E. McKnight Kauffer).  See also two citations up.

[Tony Bradshaw], Off the Beaten (Bloomsbury) Track [catalogue], London, The Bloomsbury Workshop, April 1999, item L1 (quotation from letter, 30 April 1938 to Clifton Fadiman).

Stuart N. Clarke, ‘Letters from Virginia’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, July 1999, No. 2, 4-12 (letters, 11, [19], & 23 January, 21 & 27 February 1939, 17, 23, & 27 July, 13 August, 7 September, 2 October 1940 to Mela and Robert Spira).  See also F32, 46.

Bertram Rota, Ltd, Fine and Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Autograph Letters ..., Catalogue 294, London, [January] 2000, 104, item 201 (undated inscription on a loosely-inserted leaf in presentation copy of 'The Common Reader' to Vivien[ne Eliot].

Stephen Barkway, ‘Letters from Virginia’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, January 2000, No. 3, 4, 6-7 (letters, 24 September [1936] to Robert Nichols and 21 January [1916] to Margery Olivier).

Mary Ann Caws and Sarah Bird Wright, Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends, OUP, 2000, 281 (quotation from letter of 28 April 1940 to Charles Mauron).

Hermione Lee, ‘Covered with Honey: Five Unpublished Letters by Virginia Woolf', Times Literary Supplement, 3 Mar 2000, 14 (letters, [1908], 3 June 1909, 3 July & 20 August [1916], and [1925] to Olive Heseltine).

[Krystyna Colburn], 'Two Unpublished Letters from Virginia Woolf', Virginia Woolf Miscellany, No. 55 (Spring 2000), 2 (letters, 1 March 1927 and 9 May [1927] to Aubrey Herbert).

Paul Evans, Virginia Woolf, ‘Bloomsbury’ and the Hogarth Press [catalogue], Sompting, West Sussex, Summer [i.e., May] 2000, item 327 (quotation from postcard, [January 1940] to Michal Hambourg [Mrs. E. D. Lewis of Firle]).

Stephen Barkway, ‘A Letter from Virginia’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, May 2000, No. 4, 4-5 (letter, 29 October 1928 to Crosby Gaige).

Anna Snaith, ‘Three Guineas Letters’, Woolf Studies Annual, 2000, Vol. VI, 135 (Quotation from letter, [June 1939] to Ernest Huxley).

Stephen Barkway, ‘A Letter from Virginia’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, September 2000, No. 5, 13 (letter, 12 July 1938 to Charles E. Brumwell).

Ruth Webb, Virginia Woolf, London, The British Library, 2000, 108-9 (facsimiles: typescript letter of 15 May 1940 & holograph postcard of [late May] 1940 to George Bernard Shaw & holograph letter of 26 September 1940 to Christabel Aberconway).

S. P. Rosenbaum, ‘Virginia Woolf and the Clark Lectures’ Charleston Magazine, Autumn/Winter 2000, No. 22, 8 (letter, 1 March 1932 to J. J. Thomson; facsimile, p. 9).

Stuart N. Clarke, ‘A Letter from Virginia’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, January 2001, No. 6, 4 (letter, [11?] May [1938] to Pernel Strachey).

Stuart N. Clarke, ‘A Letter from Virginia’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, May 2001, No. 7, 4 (letter, 24 May 1905 to the Director of the British Museum).

David Porter, ‘Orlando on her Mind? An Unpublished Letter from Virginia Woolf to Lady Sackville’, Woolf Studies Annual, 2001, Vol. VII, 104 (letter, 20 September 1927; facsimile of typescript, p. 105; of envelope, p. 106).

Black, Naomi (ed.), Three Guineas, by Virginia Woolf, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2001, 203 (quotation from postcard, 13 August 1938 to Vera Douie).  

Stephen Barkway, ‘A Letter from Virginia’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, September 2001, No. 8, 4 (letter, 18 November [1919] to J. C. Squire).

Sotheby’s, London, The Library of Frederick B. Adams, Jr - Part 1: English & American Literature, Sale L01910U ... Tuesday 6 November 2001, London, 2001, 60, item 94 (quotation from letter, [June 1924?] to Logan Pearsall Smith), 65, item 103 (facsimile of part of typescript letter to unnamed correspondent, 13 September 1930).

Stuart N. Clarke, ‘Letters from Virginia’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, January 2002, No. 9, 4-9 (letters, 16 March 1926, 14 May 192[6?], 7 and 14 July 1930, 29 April 1932, 17 December 1937 to Helen MacAfee).

James M. Haule and J. H. Stape (eds), Editing Virginia Woolf: Interpreting the Modernist Text, Basingstoke, Hants, Palgrave, 2002, 76 (quotations from letters of 10 February 1931 to Nancy Pearn and 6 September 1933 to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly).

Jane Dowson, Women, Modernism and British Poetry, 1910-1939: Resisting Femininity, Aldershot, Hants, Ashgate, 2002, 74-5 (quotation from letter of 29 December 1929 to Frances Cornford).  See also F34.

Stephen Barkway, ‘Letters from Virginia’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, May 2002, No. 10, 4-6 (letters, 11 January, 15 and 19 August 1928 to Humphrey Milford).

Merry M. Pawlowski,'The Virginia Woolf and Vera Douie Letters: Woolf's Connections to the Women's Service Library', Woolf Studies Annual, 2002, Vol. VIII, 14, 16,18-19, 22, 25-26, 32, 38, 53, 56 (letters, 9 July, 21 October, 17 December [see also F20], 21 December 1937, [28 February], [4 March], 8 June, 13 August, 13 November 1938, 30 July [1939], 14 March [1940]).

Stephen Barkway, ‘Letters from Virginia’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, September 2002, No. 11, 4-5 (letters, 27 May and [?29 May] 1930 to Leigh Ashton).

Peter Harrington, Antiquarian Bookseller, London, An Autumn Selection [catalogue], Autumn [2002], item 145 (postcard, 30 December 1936 to F. H. Thurston).

Vanessa Curtis, ‘Correspondence between Helena
Swanwick, May Morris, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf’, Virginia Woolf Bulletin, January 2003, No. 12, 8 (letter, 15 June 1938 to Helena Swanwick).