[Vwoolf] Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf

[Stuart N. Clarke]

Dear Nicola

Thank you very much indeed:

1. We are including the 2 letters to Ann Watkins, although they are obviously drafted by Leonard.

2. I don’t know whether we can include the letter to Leys, but we’ll give it some thought.  (I’m sure we would never have come across it if you hadn’t put it online.)

3. If you come across any carbon copies &c. initialled by VW, we’d like to know about them, because we ought to include them.

4. I suppose you haven’t seen where this came from, as we haven’t (yet?) tracked it down:

27 August 1932

[VW dictated the following:]

[Mrs Woolf] cannot recollect that she had any authority for saying that Lord Cumberland founded almshouses; she thinks it probable that having some recollection of old almshouses in that neighbourhood, she fathered them upon Lord Cumberland on the spur of the moment.

Orlando: A Biography, ed. Brenda Lyons with intro. and notes by Sarah M. Gilbert (London: Penguin Books, 1993), p. 237. 



Best wishes.
Stuart


From: Nicola Wilson 
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2023 11:46 AM
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu ; Stuart N. Clarke ; Danni Corfield 
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf

Dear Stuart and Stephen,

Good luck with all this! 

We are including some Harcourt, Brace letters in MAPP held at the Berg but these are outgoing (we have received permissions from what is now Harper Collins - the digitisation is going through at present, so not available in the site yet):  


Harcourt, Brace and Co., inc. New York. 55 TLS, telegrams to the Hogarth press or to Leonard Sidney Woolf. All relate to Virginia Woolf 1924 Nov. 25 - 1944 June 29
55 letters in 18 folders
Includes: Woolf, L. S. 54 TL (carbons), telegrams to Harcourt, Brace. Dec. 7, 1924-June 29, 1944. Interfiled with above. Correspondence contains additional 9 letters from other correspondents. All relate to V. Woolf



We have a folder of outgoing Hogarth Press letters to Harcourt Brace held at Reading - Typed copies of correspondence with Harcourt, Brace and Company regarding American rights in Virginia Woolf's works (sirsidynix.net.uk)
But these are signed by Leonard or other Press workers (Peggy Belsher, Barbara Hepworth, Margaret West) - we've had someone working on these recently to go into MAPP and I can't see any signed by VW herself.


Occasionally VW initialled letters come up in this Hogarth Press material, but not often (nb there is one included here in her hand, penned while Leonard was ill) apologies I'm not sure if these are in the collected letters or not: Virginia Woolf | Modernist Archives Publishing Project

Let me know if we can help with Harcourt anymore! 

Ab
Nicola 

Dr Nicola Wilson

Associate Professor in Book and Publishing Studies

English Literature, School of Literature and Languages, Edith Morley, Whiteknights, PO Box 218, Reading, RG6 6AA 
Tel: +44 (0)118 378 5272  |  Twitter: @Nicola_LWilson




Co-director of the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing 




Co-director of the Modernist Archives Publishing Project




Strand editor, 'Women, Publishing, and Book Culture', CUP Elements series on Publishing and Book Culture   




My most recent publication is a collaboratively-authored article, available open access: 'Digital Critical Archives, Copyright and Feminist Praxis'















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From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Sent: 17 September 2023 10:50
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
Subject: [Vwoolf] Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf 

Apropos of the message below, it is particularly humiliating that we are not able to track down the Archives of Harcourt, Brace. Can anybody help? What with the takeovers and the dividings up, where the Archives now are is a mystery to us.  
Apropos of the message below, it is particularly humiliating that we are not able to track down the Archives of Harcourt, Brace.  Can anybody help?  What with the takeovers and the dividings up, where the Archives now are is a mystery to us.  (B. J. Kirkpatrick said that she used to correspond with a very helpful woman in NYC in the 1950s to the 1980s.  I corresponded with a less-helpful woman in Orlando, FL, in the 1990s.)

At present we have about sixteen (some not complete) letters, most of them taken from the intros. to the Shakespeare Head edns of “To the Lighthouse” and “Night and Day”, and from Edward L. Bishop, ‘Mind the Gap: The Spaces in Jacob’s Room’, WSA 10 (2004).

Joanne Trautmann wrote:


“About 20 letters from VW to her American publishers, Harcourt, Brace (mostly addressed to Donald Brace) are preserved in the offices of Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, New York. They are of no special interest[!], but reached the Editors too late for inclusion in the published volumes.”


Stuart

From: sbarkway at btinternet.com 
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2023 10:24 PM
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
Cc: Stuart.N.Clarke at btinternet.com 
Subject: Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf

As some of you will know, Stuart Clarke and Stephen Barkway are searching for letters from Virginia Woolf that did not make it into the six-volume collection of her letters (Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975-80).  These additional letters will be published by Edinburgh University Press.  We’re hoping to have almost finished by the end of the year, and to submit the ‘manuscript’ next summer.  We have been allowed to include the ‘new’ letters in ‘Congenial Spirits’.  The book will be a substantial tome.



If any of you have any such letters, or copies of them, or know where they are, then we should love to hear from you.



Many of the letters have been published in whole or in part, in auction catalogues, books and articles (e.g. ‘Some [Nineteen] New Woolf Letters’, ed. Joanne Trautmann Banks, Modern Fiction Studies 30:2 (Summer 1984): 175–202; in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany (43 & 55); Woolf Studies Annual (1, 7 & 8) and almost every issue of the ‘Virginia Woolf Bulletin’), but of course we are hunting for copies of the originals.



We have checked all the institutions with substantial Woolf holdings, those who are mentioned as owners in the six volumes, and those listed in the annual ‘Woolf Studies Annual’ under ‘Guide to Library Special Collections.  There may be obscure (from a Woolfian point of view) institutions that have the odd letter and that we are not aware of.  For example, if it had not been for Beth Rigel Daugherty, we probably would not have known that Penn State University holds a letter.



We are frustrated that we have by no means managed to track down all the letters on the two lists of ‘too lates’ (1980; available on the VW CD-ROM, Berg M43 (search for "Nigel")) and ‘too too lates’ (1984), compiled by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann.  For example, what happened to the letters owned by Roger Fry’s daughter, Pamela Diamand?



We realise that the minute the book goes to press, another letter or letters will pop up, but we are seeking help from you, in the hope that there will not be too many.



Stephen and Stuart



stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com

sbarkway at btinternet.com


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