<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div>__________________________________<div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino"><b><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#270207">Posting for Mark Samuels Lasner,</font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#26050b"> </font></i></b></font><div>Distinguished Collector, Victoriana - University of Delaware</div><div><<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://library.udel.edu/special/collections/mark-samuels-lasner-collection/__;!!KGKeukY!mDcUluxv_eSJ0Yj2exkiqAATFpRe1_mlFQi5jig3Ush51vzZLhW1_b7I6WfJlKPf76M$">https://library.udel.edu/special/collections/mark-samuels-lasner-collection/</a>></div><div><<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/59597247?access_key=key-12e2d4gdkv7zpiuw96sr__;!!KGKeukY!mDcUluxv_eSJ0Yj2exkiqAATFpRe1_mlFQi5jig3Ush51vzZLhW1_b7I6WfJeuoO7_I$">https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/59597247?access_key=key-12e2d4gdkv7zpiuw96sr</a>></div><div>___________________________________</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps specialists on the Virginia Woolf List may have some information, or response, to this query:</div><div><br></div><div>I am attempting to sort out a new acquisition of mine — a photograph of Virginia Woolf with her parents, 1890s; </div><div>here is an image from the Smith College Library website, quite similar to my photograph:</div><div>< <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/rarebook/exhibitions/stephen/38h.htm__;!!KGKeukY!mDcUluxv_eSJ0Yj2exkiqAATFpRe1_mlFQi5jig3Ush51vzZLhW1_b7I6WfJQrogcS4$">https://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/rarebook/exhibitions/stephen/38h.htm</a> ></div><div><br></div><div>This item, now in my possession, comes from respected New York bookseller, Glenn Horowitz, and was part </div><div>of the Stella Duckworth-Jack Hills papers now at NYPL. Maggie Humm, in her <i>Snapshots of Bloomsbury (</i>2006), </div><div>reproduces the image from a print in the Monk’s House album at Harvard, and says that the photograph was </div><div>taken by Vanessa Bell in 1892. Elizabeth P. Richardson, in <i>A Bloomsbury Iconography</i> (1989), does not attribute the </div><div>photograph to a particular person, but indicates a date of 1893, based on the ms. contents list in Leslie Stephen’s </div><div>album (Smith College).</div><div><br></div><div>From the <i>Hyde Park Gate News</i>, we learn that for her birthday on 30 May 1892, Stella Duckworth was </div><div>given a “camera machine” which she took to Talford House for the summer / early autumn holidays. </div><div><i>This suggests that Stella was the photographer, not Vanessa.</i></div><div><br></div><div>Would any specialists on the Virginia Woolf List have any insight into these uncertaities of date and photographer, </div><div>or<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> t</font>houghts on sources and perhaps others to query?</div><div><br></div><div>Normally, Woolf, indeed Bloomsbury in general, is not within the scope of the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection;</div><div>however, considering that all in the photograph were writers of the 1890s (though Virginia was not yet published), how </div><div>could this Victoriana collector resist? </div><div><div> </div><div>Incidentally, U of Delaware has a nearly complete Hogarth Press collection, formed by the press’s bibliographer, Howard Woolmer. </div><div><br></div><div>Kindly reply to either of my email accounts, below, and with special thanks to < <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.carlkohler.se/pdf/Mulvihill-Woolf-PDF.pdf__;!!KGKeukY!mDcUluxv_eSJ0Yj2exkiqAATFpRe1_mlFQi5jig3Ush51vzZLhW1_b7I6WfJKgX6z1M$">Maureen E. Mulvihill</a>> for coordinating this query,</div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Trebuchet MS'" color="#270207">MSL</font></div><div><br></div><div>Mark Samuels Lasner</div><div>Senior Research Fellow</div><div>University of Delaware Library, Museums & Press</div><div>Tel (302) 831-3250</div><div><a href="mailto:marksl@udel.edu" class="">marksl@udel.edu</a></div><div><a href="mailto:biblio@aol.com">biblio@aol.co</a></div><div>_____________<br><br></div></div></div></body></html>