[Vwoolf] The New York Public Library’s Collection of Weird Objects - Virginia Woolf’s cane

[Stephen Barkway]

Mark,

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 Virginia Woolf Bulletin, no. 10, May 2002 pp. 3 & 69-70).

All the best,

Stephen

 

From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+sbarkway=btinternet.com at lists.osu.edu> On Behalf Of Mark Hussey via Vwoolf
Sent: 12 July 2018 18:20
To: 'Gregory Jordan Dekter' <jdekter at gmail.com>; 'K L Levenback' <kllevenback at att.net>
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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] The New York Public Library’s Collection of Weird Objects - Virginia Woolf’s cane

 

Agreed! (and I wonder how much of their straitened budget went to its purchase …)

 

From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Gregory Jordan Dekter via Vwoolf
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 12:55 PM
To: K L Levenback
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Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] The New York Public Library’s Collection of Weird Objects - Virginia Woolf’s cane

 

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. 

 

On 12 July 2018 at 12:30, K L Levenback via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> > wrote:


https://start.att.net/player/category/news/article/the_new_yorker_video-the_new_york_public_librarys_collection_of_weird_o-condenast



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