<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Jeannette Smyth <<a href="mailto:jeannette_smyth@earthlink.net">jeannette_smyth@earthlink.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">May 16, 2013 3:07:27 PM MDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [Vwoolf] "Leonard to Keep His Virgins"</b><br></span></div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">With respect, it certainly could be a playful reference to Leonard's 1914 novel, and rather a more unkind reference to the two ladies who occupied the offices of the International Review, of which Leonard was editor. They were Louise Ernestine Matthei, assistant editor, and Minna Green, secretary (LW, <i>Downhill All the Way</i>, 17).<div><br></div><div>Vol. One of the Diaries has several interesting entries by VW on Miss Matthei, as well as one of Anne Olivier Bell's helpful biographical notes, on page 135. </div><div><br></div><div>No such note for Minna Green, but she is listed in the index with references (one of them apparently unkind) on page 254 and 309.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeannette Smyth<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 16, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Elizabeth Evans wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Perhaps it's both–a reference to his office staff with a playful allusion to LW's novel The Wise Virgins. <br><br>Liz<br><br><br>Dr. Elizabeth F. Evans<br>University of Notre Dame<br><a href="mailto:elizabeth.evans@nd.edu">elizabeth.evans@nd.edu</a><br><br><br><br>On May 16, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Stephen Barkway <<a href="mailto:sbarkway@btinternet.com">sbarkway@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">I would guess she's referring to Leonard's office staff.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Stephen<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">----- Original Message -----<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From: Jonathan Reeve<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">To: <a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:31 PM<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Subject: [Vwoolf] "Leonard to Keep His Virgins"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hi V-Woolf Listserv,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">A quick question: in Woolf's diaries (vol. 1, p. 318), there is the curious note "L. to keep his office & his virgins. We think we now deserve some good luck. Yet I daresay we’re the happiest couple in England." Having not read much more of the diaries, I'm don't have the slightest clue who or what Leonard's "virgins" might be. Does anyone know? <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Here's a tiny bit of context, from Google Books: <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=a31bAAAAMAAJ&q=">http://books.google.com/books?id=a31bAAAAMAAJ&q=</a>"L+to+keep+his+office+and+his+virgins"&dq="L+to+keep+his+office+and+his+virgins"&hl=en&sa=X&ei=y0GVUd-sJvWy4APSpIHICA&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-Jon Reeve<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Vwoolf mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf">https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Vwoolf mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf">https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br>https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>