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<DIV>In the Monks House Papers, there is in sec. III, Vaughan, Madge, “1 letter
to VS, 1904”</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mefoleyuk@gmail.com
href="mailto:mefoleyuk@gmail.com">Mary Ellen Foley</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 24, 2014 10:13 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=sbarkway@btinternet.com
href="mailto:sbarkway@btinternet.com">Stephen Barkway</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] Madge Vaughan "believed in her
genius"</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'><BR>Thanks!
But surely for that to be the case Madge would have to have written, TO Woolf,
something like "I believed in her genius", which seems pretty unlikely, unless
QB misquoted. Surely she'd've said "I *believe* in *your* genius".
Madge could've written the line to Vanessa as part of the correspondence QB
quoted elsewhere on the page, or Vanessa could have written something about
knowing it will have meant a lot to her sister--pure fantasy here, of
course--"that you told her you believed in her genius"--which we see from
Virginia's letter to Madge was pretty much the case. It's probably going
to remain a mystery, but geez--wish he'd given the source!
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<DIV>Mary Ellen</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>On Sunday, August 24, 2014, Stephen Barkway <<A
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<DIV>It would seem likely that QB would have been quoting from a letter from
Madge which prompted Virginia to respond as follows:</DIV>
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<DIV>'I do enjoy flattery! I never seriously meant to deny myself the pleasure
of writing, however bad it be for the public morals!—As a matter of fact I am
vain enough to think it had better read me than more popular authors. "<FONT
color=#ff0000><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT color=#ff0000><FONT
color=#000000>Genius</FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT>" is not a word to be used
rashly; it gives me enormous pleasure, and something more than pleasure, that
you should find anything of that kind in me.'</DIV>
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<DIV>(<EM>Letters</EM> I, 1 Dec [1904])</DIV>
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<DIV>Stephen</DIV>
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A
title=mefoleyuk@gmail.com>Mary Ellen Foley</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 23, 2014 6:23
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] Madge Vaughan
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<DIV>Quentin Bell says<BR><BR>>>><BR></DIV>Madge, who liked
Virginia and "believed in her genius," was nevertheless sensible
of...<BR><<<<BR><BR></DIV>That's in vol 1, page 92, of the 1972
2-vols-in-1 paperback from Harcourt/Harvest. But there's no footnote
to let us know where he got the phrase or who said/wrote it. The page
has two block quotations from Vanessa Bell's letters to Madge Vaughan, which
have proper citations in the end notes; I looked up those letters and the
quoted phrase isn't taken from them, unless I've got some kind of bizarre
blind spot and couldn't see it right in front of me.<BR><BR></DIV>Am I
overlooking something tremendously obvious here? Who's he
quoting?<BR><BR></DIV>Mary
Ellen<BR><BR>M.E.Foley<BR><SPAN>MEFoleyUK</SPAN>@<A href="http://gmail.com"
target=_blank>gmail.com</A><BR><BR></DIV>
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