[Vwoolf] Undigested Cats

Thu Feb 11 11:35:18 EST 2021

Ooooh Thanks!  I’ve been trying to resist writing a vegetarian reading of VW (politicized, not “correct”), but now I might have to. 

Andrea Z.

> On Feb 11, 2021, at 11:28 AM, Mark Hussey via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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> Ah, then see Julia Duckworth Stephen’s story ‘Cat’s Meat’ in Gillespie and Steele!
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> From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net at lists.osu.edu> On Behalf Of Andrea Zemgulys via Vwoolf
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2021 11:20 AM
> To: Danell Jones <danelljones at bresnan.net>
> Cc: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Undigested Cats
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> That must have been a tricky photograph back in the day!
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> On an adjacent topic, photos of “cat’s meat men” always fascinate me.  (Purveyors of food FOR cats and dogs, but who can really say…). I’ve seen other photos with a London seller being trailed by scores of hungry, thin street cats at a time.  I don’t believe this was a London sight that VW wrote about, but wouldn’t rule it out (on this list!). And it might give some context for the nuisance of poor Topaz.
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> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://designyoutrust.com/2019/07/amazing-vintage-photographs-of-cats-meat-sellers-in-london-in-the-early-20th-century/__;!!KGKeukY!mRCtrLq0gOdIsPigr0lvFenebNFhwKHAaIj_MnRqc1EFZv_EBrlWZT1vI20O5GAY3zZFxfWZ6-wi$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/designyoutrust.com/2019/07/amazing-vintage-photographs-of-cats-meat-sellers-in-london-in-the-early-20th-century/__;!!KGKeukY!gsMO7bjWlYeKmFa8l-6wnhClLDN9JplXrFp6-e-66Q-Vl5dIqzgknJTD9_0BfR67dOI$>
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> Andrea Z.
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>> On Feb 11, 2021, at 11:03 AM, Danell Jones via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>> wrote:
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>> This, too, is one from the digitized Houghton Library collection. One of my favorites. I love small, feisty gray cats! 
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>> Danell
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>> From: Diane Gillespie via Vwoolf <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 11:21 AM
>> To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Undigested Cats
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>> Leonard is holding a similar cat in a photo facing page 192 in the last volume of his autobiography, The Journey Not the Arrival Matters.  
>> Thanks to all for the cat references in these recent exchanges.
>> Greetings on a very cold day from another amused and appreciative cat owner,
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>> Diane Gillespie
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>> On 2/10/2021 6:27 AM, Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf wrote:
>>> It's worthwhile to admire a Woolf cat....This is Sappho, a Siamese. The photo is from one of the Monks House albums held at Harvard's Houghton Library and now digitalized (and the Library posted it on Twitter...).
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>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/houghtonlib/status/1159480579940855810__;!!KGKeukY!mRCtrLq0gOdIsPigr0lvFenebNFhwKHAaIj_MnRqc1EFZv_EBrlWZT1vI20O5GAY3zZFxSrvuSqa$  <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Ftwitter.com*2Fhoughtonlib*2Fstatus*2F1159480579940855810&data=04*7C01*7Cneverowv1*40southernct.edu*7C60411439704b480fa8e808d8cdc412a7*7C58736863d60e40ce95c60723c7eaaf67*7C0*7C0*7C637485589302152521*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C1000&sdata=pUZqJhld0sSWlsPC7lGqZ7mSNufKk4JCjmnehKrC3gw*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!KGKeukY!mb0hKsndg9aSq_Rx1YpJu6b3jlsmJbFNFpYi4ECQn2QERb1Ju4Tp6cvUZH9Dxtbm9Gk$> 
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>>> Vara
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>>> Vara Neverow
>>> Department of English
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>>> From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> <mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> <mailto:vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2021 9:10 AM
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>>> Subject: [Vwoolf] Undigested Cats
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>>> “did the Woolfs keep cats as pets or indoor-outdoor presences?  I don't remember any in the diaries.”
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>>> See Diary 14 & 15/10/17 & 26/11/17; also 23/4/18 – all referring to the Manx cat
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>>> However, this paucity in the Diary only goes to show that one should pay more attention to the letters!
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>>> See nos. 229, 243, 2343, 2628, 3616, 3677 (recommended), 3689, 3695.
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>>> Finally, from an uncollected letter:
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>>> [On verso, small mark circled:] This is the cats paw
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>>> Stuart
>>> (Day 330)
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