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<div dir="ltr">Hi Elisa (& what a great find Nicola!!) - most of The Hours ('Mrs Dalloway') holograph is in Woolf's favored purple ink, with some in black and a little in blue. Her corrections on the American proof are also in purple ink.<div>I would think letters might be the way to ferret out earliest use but I haven't done that sleuthing myself... rattling around in my brain is a description of those letters returned to VW by Violet Dickinson. I'll see if I can track that down.</div><div>all the best, mark</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM stringsOf Light via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg5139634731713839643">
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By the way, speaking of purple, Caroline Vega from NYPL, who curated in 2022 the exhibition “Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind” chose any text on Woolf to be purple, keeping in mind that it was Woolf’s favorite colour for writing. From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+stringsoflight=hotmail. co. uk@ lists. osu. edu></div>
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By the way, speaking of purple, Caroline Vega from NYPL, who curated in 2022 the exhibition “Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind” chose any text on Woolf to be purple, keeping in mind that it was Woolf’s favorite colour for writing. </div>
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<b>To:</b> Nicola Wilson via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>>; Woolf List <<a href="mailto:VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a>>; Elisa Sparks <<a href="mailto:sparks@clemson.edu" target="_blank">sparks@clemson.edu</a>>; Nicola Wilson <<a href="mailto:n.l.wilson@reading.ac.uk" target="_blank">n.l.wilson@reading.ac.uk</a>><br>
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Dear Elisa Someone might know it on this server but if not NYPL is the best place to ask. You will most likely be able to receive both answers from them. And if you do please share it with us, it would be interesting to know. Best of luck. From: </div>
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Someone might know it on this server but if not NYPL is the best place to ask. </div>
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You will most likely be able to receive both answers from them. And if you do please share it with us, it would be interesting to know. </div>
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<b>Sent:</b> 11 April 2025 07:38<br>
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Dear Elisa, We have recently found evidence of Woolf’s purple pen in the Hogarth Press archives up to Feb 1940 - on the stock cards! Taking account of the figures… This is very exciting as it gives a real indication of Woolf’s presence at the</div>
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We have recently found evidence of Woolf’s purple pen in the Hogarth Press archives up to Feb 1940 - on the stock cards! Taking account of the figures… This is very exciting as it gives a real indication of Woolf’s presence at the Press and corroborates the
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Esther Folkersma who has been working on these cards has written a blog on this: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://modernistarchives.com/content/the-colour-purple-finding-virginia-woolf-in-the-hogarth-press-stock-value-cards__;!!KGKeukY!wlZQL1ku8VJXeS5RV-ZFxP24N-YiAK_IpgSg_4kmgWsicd1jJVr-wxIzgVNUnj0hqs3Z06oitoBo6RmyNMgcfuwAH4L3$" target="_blank">https://modernistarchives.com/content/the-colour-purple-finding-virginia-woolf-in-the-hogarth-press-stock-value-cards</a></div>
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<div>Dear All—<br>
I have a question about Woolf’s use of purple ink. I have read Paula Maggio’s helpful reposting of Matthew Holliday’s twitter feeds about Bloomsbury inks. I want to know: did she use purple ink throughout her life? I know that the MS’s of Between the Acts
are largely typed rather than written. Did she use purple ink at any point in correcting the MS? Did she by any chance ever use a purple typewriter ribbon?
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Mrs Dalloway holograph is in purple ink, right? <br>
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