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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Mark,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The video link wouldn’t play for me, but the Berg purchased the stick on 12 March 2002. It was in a Lewes auction , from the Estate of Louie Mayer. They paid £2,700 plus commission, presumably (see <i>Virginia Woolf Bulletin</i>, no. 10, May 2002 pp. 3 & 69-70).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Stephen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+sbarkway=btinternet.com@lists.osu.edu> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Hussey via Vwoolf<br><b>Sent:</b> 12 July 2018 18:20<br><b>To:</b> 'Gregory Jordan Dekter' <jdekter@gmail.com>; 'K L Levenback' <kllevenback@att.net><br><b>Cc:</b> vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] The New York Public Library’s Collection of Weird Objects - Virginia Woolf’s cane<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Agreed! (and I wonder how much of their straitened budget went to its purchase …)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Vwoolf [<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu">mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gregory Jordan Dekter via Vwoolf<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 12, 2018 12:55 PM<br><b>To:</b> K L Levenback<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] The New York Public Library’s Collection of Weird Objects - Virginia Woolf’s cane<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>It's disturbing to see NYPL's focus for this curio remains on Woolf's suicide, not her life in general, or her contribution to society. No doubt that cane took many other journeys with its user, but the final one is the only one that seems to matter. Their propensity for titillation over context is especially evident, given the curator's claim that these objects express some kind of exceptional knowledge of the person who owned them. I'm not entirely sure how that's supposed to work. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>On 12 July 2018 at 12:30, K L Levenback via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><br><a href="https://start.att.net/player/category/news/article/the_new_yorker_video-the_new_york_public_librarys_collection_of_weird_o-condenast" target="_blank">https://start.att.net/player/category/news/article/the_new_yorker_video-the_new_york_public_librarys_collection_of_weird_o-condenast</a><br><br><br><br>Sent from my iPad<br>_______________________________________________<br>Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" target="_blank">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>