
Luke Batterham
Senior Valuer
This auction has ended. View lot details
Sold for £1,375 inc. premium
Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialist
Senior Valuer
Sir Leslie Stephen's Some Early Impressions was published by the Hogarth Press in May 1924 and comprises reminiscences originally printed in The National Review and The Atlantic Monthly in 1903. Lucy Clifford, the letter's recipient, had been a friend of Virginia's father and was the widow of a mathematician who had died young of consumption, forcing her thereafter to make a living as a popular novelist (and earning several disparaging references in Virginia's letters). Our letter is not published in The Letters of Virginia Woolf, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann (1975-1980).