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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We definitely now need a scholarly
edition of CSF.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No doubt, one will
appear in the second round of “The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia
Woolf”.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Looking at “The Prime Minister”, I
noticed:</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="mso-list: ignore"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(1)</FONT></FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><FONT
face=Arial><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Susan Dick says the PM is “presumably” Lloyd
George.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Definitely, I would have
said.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>He was a polarising character
(unlike his successor Bonar Law: </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
style="LINE-HEIGHT: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-ansi-language: en" lang=EN><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">"It is fitting", [Asquith] is reputed to have said, "that
we should have buried the Unknown Prime Minister by the side of the Unknown
Soldier").</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(2)</FONT></FONT><SPAN
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt">The loathing that H. Z. Prentice feels
towards the PM perhaps comes from H. J. Massingham, Editor of the N&A: see
Leonard Woolf’s “Downhill All the Way”, esp. pp. 94-5.</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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style="mso-list: ignore"><FONT face=Arial><FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(3)</FONT></FONT><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt"> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">As the Coalition was falling apart
there were a number of by-elections (Mrs Lewis is pleased that “the coalition
candidate had been hopelessly beaten by labour”), notably at Pontypridd on c. 26
July 1922 (“Coalition Defeat ... Big Labour Poll” said “The Times”) and Gower in
Glamorgan on 21 July (“Labour Majority Nearly Doubled” said “The
Times”).</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">My favourite “pons asinorum” for
foreigners (cf. red-hot pokers) is in “The String Quartet”: “Regent Street is
up” (para. 2), and even the British need its historical significance
explained.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I note that a French
translation has “Regent Street est chic”!.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>A Portuguese has “Regent Street fica um pouco mais acima”, which is
hilariously clumsy and meaningless.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Another is less clumsy, but I suspect is wrong: “Regent Street se
ergueu”.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, a German
translation (Fischer Taschenbuch) has got it right: “Regent Street
aufgegraben”.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Stuart</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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