<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_22269" dir="ltr">I agree, Cheryl, but coming from a Brit it sounds like sour grapes. I don't imagine the National Trust wanted to part with the funds it would have cost to get it back over the Atlantic.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_22200"><span></span></div><br> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_22205" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_22204" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_22203" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_22202" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_23709" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_22201" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Cheryl Mares <mares@sbc.edu><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "Neverow, Vara S." <neverowv1@southernct.edu> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" <vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu>; Virginia Woolf <Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 17 August 2015, 16:15<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vwoolf] Duke Magazine pix of VW desk<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_22208" class="y_msg_container"><br><div original_target="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" id="yiv6215819944"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_22207"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_22206">It looks like it belongs in her writing studio, not in the Dukedom.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sent from my iPad</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv6215819944yqt7214043801" id="yiv6215819944yqt05403"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_23703"><br original_target="mailto:neverowv1@southernct.edu" clear="none">On Aug 17, 2015, at 11:01 AM, Neverow, Vara S. <<a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_23704" saprocessedanchor="true" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:neverowv1@southernct.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:neverowv1@southernct.edu">neverowv1@southernct.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439821810674_22211">Thanks so much Leslie!</div>
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<div style="font-size:14px;">Vara Neverow</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold;">From: </span>Leslie Kathleen Hankins <<a original_target="mailto:lhankins@cornellcollege.edu" saprocessedanchor="true" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:LHankins@cornellcollege.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:LHankins@cornellcollege.edu">LHankins@cornellcollege.edu</a>><br clear="none">
<span style="font-weight:bold;">Date: </span>Monday, August 17, 2015 at 10:13 AM<br clear="none">
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<span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject: </span>[Vwoolf] Duke Magazine pix of VW desk<br clear="none">
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<div dir="ltr">Hi all, Duke U acquired VW's writing desk (I believe designed by Vanessa) and here is a scan of the one page piece with picture, entitled "Crazy Smart" (which is a term duke uses for their students, but seems a poor choice here one might say)
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<div><font face="garamond,serif" color="#9900ff" size="2"><i>"Moreover, however interesting facts may be, they are an inferior form of fiction, & gradually we become impatient of their weakness & diffuseness, of their compromises & evasions, of the slovenly
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<div><font face="garamond,serif" color="#9900ff"> Virginia Woolf, "How Should One Read a Book?"</font></div>
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