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ALBUM – VIRGINIA WOOLF, AUTHORS & POLITICIANS Autograph letter signed ("Virginia Woolf"), regarding Jacob's Room, 1923, in an album with other signatures [1920-1928]
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ALBUM – VIRGINIA WOOLF, AUTHORS & POLITICIANS
Autograph letter signed ("Virginia Woolf") to Gwendoline Bulley ("Dear Madam"), in purple ink, apologising for the delay in responding and commenting "...I was very glad to hear that you liked my book Jacob's Room. I mean it to be understood that the hero was killed in the war. It is always a pleasure to find that one's writing has been enjoyed...", one page, affixed into a window mount on an album page, dust-staining and marks, creased at folds, 8vo, Monk's House, Rodmell, 24 August 1923.
The letter within an album containing a further 46 autograph and typed letters, 18 cut signatures and two postcards from authors, politicians and clergy, including: Compton Mackenzie, Israel Zangwill ("yes, praying shawls are still in use... Yours autographically..."), Wilhelmina Stitch, American novelist Kate Douglas Wiggin, Marjorie Bowen, sculptor Kineton Parkes, Horace Annesley Vachell, E.W. Horning ("...so glad you like Raffles better than the two sequels..."), Jerome K. Jerome ("...Hate comes from the Devil & is the worst of all the vices..."), E.F. Benson, Edgar Wallace ("...You almost encourage me to go on writing stories!...), Joseph Hocking ("...my autograph is of but little value..."), etc.; with cut or presentation signatures of Robert Baden Powell (with accompanying letter by Olave Baden Powell), Maude Warrender, A. Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, David Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald, John Galsworthy, John Masefield, two postcards from Baroness Orczy (one a signed portrait photograph), and many others; each page with typed heading, handwritten list of contents stuck into inside cover, some loose printed insertions, newspaper cuttings and ephemera, 62 leaves, dust-staining and marks, discolouration, glue stains, 4to and 8vo, held in a ShannoLace loose leaf binder by green laces, orange paper covers, worn, discoloured and marked, frayed with losses, 4to (295 x 220mm.), [1920-1928]
The letter within an album containing a further 46 autograph and typed letters, 18 cut signatures and two postcards from authors, politicians and clergy, including: Compton Mackenzie, Israel Zangwill ("yes, praying shawls are still in use... Yours autographically..."), Wilhelmina Stitch, American novelist Kate Douglas Wiggin, Marjorie Bowen, sculptor Kineton Parkes, Horace Annesley Vachell, E.W. Horning ("...so glad you like Raffles better than the two sequels..."), Jerome K. Jerome ("...Hate comes from the Devil & is the worst of all the vices..."), E.F. Benson, Edgar Wallace ("...You almost encourage me to go on writing stories!...), Joseph Hocking ("...my autograph is of but little value..."), etc.; with cut or presentation signatures of Robert Baden Powell (with accompanying letter by Olave Baden Powell), Maude Warrender, A. Bonar Law, Stanley Baldwin, David Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald, John Galsworthy, John Masefield, two postcards from Baroness Orczy (one a signed portrait photograph), and many others; each page with typed heading, handwritten list of contents stuck into inside cover, some loose printed insertions, newspaper cuttings and ephemera, 62 leaves, dust-staining and marks, discolouration, glue stains, 4to and 8vo, held in a ShannoLace loose leaf binder by green laces, orange paper covers, worn, discoloured and marked, frayed with losses, 4to (295 x 220mm.), [1920-1928]
Footnotes
'IT IS ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO FIND THAT ONE'S WRITING HAS BEEN ENJOYED': Virginia Woolf, writing the year after the publication of Jacob's Room, echoes the sentiments of many of the authors in this collection, which was amassed by the young Gwendoline Bulley of Fleetwood, Lancashire, in the 1920's. A press cutting from the local paper included in the album describes her enthusiasm for autograph collecting: '...Novelists were her first victims and from them she has secured quite a number of signatures, and better still, some delightful autograph letters... our enthusiast has now opened fire upon the politicians... Not everyone possesses the signature of an ex-Prime Minister... What magic words are used by Miss Bulley to charm the hearts of these celebrities, and the much harder ones of their secretaries is shrouded in mystery, but they must be potent...'.
Provenance: Gwendoline May Bulley (1903-1976); her brother Walter Eric Bulley (1914-2006); his partner John Harvey (d.2008); thence by descent to the present owner.