Leonard and Virginia Woolf Insert Papers, circa 1875-1974

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969
Title
Leonard and Virginia Woolf Insert Papers
Dates
circa 1875-1974 (inclusive)
Quantity
0.5 Linear feet of shelf space, (1 Box)
Collection Number
Cage 674 (collection)
Summary
This collection consists of manuscripts, letters, and miscellaneous material that, for a variety of reasons, were placed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in books from their working library.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open and available for research use.

Languages
English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The laid in Insert Papers collection from the personal library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf consists of manuscripts, letters, and miscellaneous material that, for a variety of reasons, were placed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in books from their working library. Other casual inserts were slipped into titles that had been sent to them as review copies or as gifts. Most of this insert material, then, has some relationship to the title it was originally associated with although the precise nature of a given item or item-book association is not always clear. Of special interest among the manuscripts are the literary and scholarly fragments, some with definite authorship. Published (printed) insert material was left in the books.

Where possible, items are minimally described according to elements selected from the information present on documents or that was established by previous research; bracketed information is supplied. Where available, the call numbers for the book related to each item is provided, and the catalog information for the book often includes additional information about the inserted item.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Copyright restrictions may apply.

Preferred Citation

[Item description]

Leonard and Virginia Woolf Insert Papers, circa 1875-1974 (Cage 674)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The collection is organized chronologically into two series: Series 1, Correspondence, 1909-1974, undated and Series 2, Manuscripts, 1875-1938, undated. This arrangement has been imposed by the archivist.

Custodial History

This collection of laid in inserts from books that were originally part of the personal library of Leonard and Virginia Woolf (including those books housed in their Monks House and Victoria Square residences in England), which became available for purchase shortly after Leonard Woolf's death in 1969. In the ensuing years additional titles from Leonard Woolf's estate surfaced. These were also purchased in whole or in part by the Washington State University Libraries. In 1974 the Libraries purchased a collateral lot of Hogarth Press editions, some from the Woolfs' own collection. The bulk of what now constitutes the Libraries' printed Woolf holdings (and collateral print collections) was purchased in six lots between 1971 and 1983.

Processing Note

This collection was processed by Robert N. Matuozzi in March 2000.

Separated Materials

The books the materials were found in have been cataloged individually and are housed in the WSU MASC Stacks.

Bibliography

For more detailed information on the provenance and scope of Leonard and Virginia Woolf's personal library, see the journal "Virginia Woolf Miscellany", No. 22 (Spring 1984).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series 1: Correspondence, 1909-1974, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 1
G.E. Moore to Woolf.
Book Call number: BF311 .M66 1906
29 January 1909
1 2
A.V. Dicey to Julian Heward Bell.
Book Call number: JF432 .G8 D5 1905
4 February 1909
1 3
Bell to Woolf.
Book Call number: DT107 .C88 1908
12 February [19]13
1 4
O.M.D. to Clive Bell.
Book Call number: PR6001 .R78 P6 1928
5 November 1913
1 5
Margaret Llewelyn Davis to Virginia [Woolf].
Book Call number: HQ759 .W6 1915
3 September 1915
1 6
J.C. Squire to Woolf.
Book Call number: HD6477 .S52313 1916
3 March 1916
1 7
A.M. ANton (?) to Woolf.
Book Call number: DA565.C4 G3 (volume 4)
1916
1 8
Alexander Constantine Ionides to [Virginia Woolf].
Book Call number: B701 .I57 1917
29 May 1917
1 9
S.E. Chavasse to Mrs. MacCarthy.
Book Call number: B1656 .E4 1917
circa 1917
1 10
Stanley Unwin to L.S. Woolf.
Book Call number: DB91 .A8 1920
12 February 1920
1 11
E. Blunden to Mr. Woolf.
Book Call number: DK254.I8 A5 1920
14 October 1920
1 12
E. Blunden to Mr. Woolf.
Book Call number: DT107 .C5 1920
circa 1920
1 13
W.J. Turner to Leonard Woolf.
Book Call number: HD2321 .E3 1920
25 January 1921
1 14
W.W. Henderson to L.S. Woolf.
Book Call number: JC359 .P38 1922
24 March 1922
1 15
F.L.C. Floyd of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to L. Woolf.
Book Call number: PR6023.E4 Z52 1955
4 August 1922
1 16
W.W. Henderson to Leonard S. Woolf.
Book Call number: DD801.S13 O7 1923
1 November 1923
1 17
S. (?) A. Millar of William Heinemann, Ltd. to [Leonard Woolf].
Book Call number: PR5480 .F24
8 November 1923
1 18
W.J. Townsend Collins to L.S. Woolf.
Book Call number: PR6005.O367 T3 1923
circa 1923
1 19
Stationery Office, Dublin to The Literary Editor.
Book Call number: JF11 .I7 1924
3 October 1924
1 20
Theodora Bosanquet to Elizabeth Robins.
Book Call number: PS2123 .B6 1924
circa 1925
1 21
C. Graham Pole of The British Office of Indian Affairs to Leonard Woolf.
Book Call number: JQ211 .S27 1926
16 November 1926
1 22
E.H. Jerkins to Mrs. Woolf.
Book Call number: DA690 .K7 S328 1926
1 March 1928
1 23
Clive Bell to the Editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
Book Call number: PQ2631.R63 Z543 1928e
22 February 1929
1 24
E. Blunden to Mrs. Woolf.
Book Call number: PR5238 .B5 1930
3 December 1930
1 24.1
Virginia Woolf to Dear Madam.
Book Call number: PR6045.O72O5 1930 (copy 1)
10 December 1930
1 25
Leonard Ehrlich to Mrs. Woolf.
Book Call number: PS1541 .A1 1927
10 March 1934
1 26
Clive Bell to Angelica Bell.
9 August 1937
1 27
Beetle to Angelica Bell.
10 August 1937
1 28
W. Surrey Dane to Mr. Woolf.
Book Call number: DA586 .F7 1939
3 May 1939
1 29
Naomi Michison to Leonard and Virginia [Woolf].
Book Call number: PR6025.I86 A42 1939
circa 1939
1 30
G.S. Bishop of The Labour Book Service to Leonard Woolf.
Book Call number: HX246 .D75 1940b (copy 2)
5 February 1940
1 31
MacMillan & Co. Ltd. to The Literary Editor.
Book Call number: DD231.S83 A332 1935
1 April 1940
1 32
Letter to Leonard Woolf, 30 January 1950. Letter from Joseph E. MacInnis to Leonard Woolf, 18 October 1968.
Book Call number: PS8575.I53 U54 1968
1 33
Paulie to Trekkie Parsons.
Book Call number: PQ2247 .A2 1926
8 January 1947
1 34
Vanessa Bell to Mr. Gwynne Hughes.
Book Call number: PR6045 .O72 M62 1921(copy 2)
10 February 1957
1 35
R.R. Crossette-Thambiah to Leonard Woolf. 5 September 1960. With reply, 26 October 1960.
Book Call number: DS432.T3 C7 1960
1 36
Ralph Schoenman to Mr. Woolf.
Book Call number: B1649.R94 I5 1962
27 September 1962
1 37
Oliver [Moore?] to Patsy.
Book Call number: PS3531.O82 Z65 1965
6 November 1966
1 38
Philip [Sidney Woolf] to Leonard [Woolf].
Book Call number: PR6003.I434 Z85 1966
circa 1966
1 39
Leonard Woolf to J.R. Windle.
Book Call number: PR6005.U6 P3 1925 (copy 1)
22 May 1968
1 40
Trekkie Parsons to Mr. G. Donald Smith.
5 December 1973
1 41
Nigel Nicolson to Mr. Farrelly.
9 March 1974
1 42
Nigel Nicolson to Mr. Farrelly.
17 March 1974
Undated Correspondence
Box Folder
1 43
Lilla [Healing] to Trekkie [Parsons].
Book Call number: BF173.F78 1962
1 44
Augustine Birrell to Virginia [Woolf].
Book Call number: DC611.C811 B75 1923
July 13, no year
1 45
Philip Sassoon to Virginia [Woolf].
Book Call number: TL540.S3 A3 1929
June 13, no year

Series 2: Manuscripts, 1875-1938, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
1 46
Notes on literature. 1 leaf. Leslie Stephen.
Book Call number: PR625 .W3 1875 (volume 1)
circa 1875
1 47
Historical notes and map. 1 leaf. Unidentified.
Book Call number: DS471 .W75 1890
circa 1896
1 48
"Empedocles: Sex[tus] Emp[iricus] VII. 123. 2 leaves. Leonard Woolf.
Book Call number: B168.A1 R5 1888
circa 1899
1 49
Literary fragment and drawing. 2 leaves. Leonard Woolf.
Book Call number: PA4279 .T7 1888
circa 1900
1 50
"Grammar. First Exam in Tamil. 4 leaves. Unknown.
Book Call number: PL4751 .P7 1904 pt. 1
circa 1905
1 51
"To V.S. With a Book. 1 sheet folded. CB [Clive Bell].
Book Call number: PR3737 .A1 1776
1909
1 52
Translation of Mallarmé poem. 1 leaf. Roger Fry?
Book Call number: PQ2344 .A1 1913
circa 1913
1 53
Notes. 1 leaf. Leonard Woolf.
Book Call number: HC462 .P8 1915
circa 1915
1 54
"The International Review" (sketch drawing of title page layout.) 1 leaf. Leonard Woolf.
Book Call number: Z250 .C37 1913
circa 1919
1 55
"XXI - XXII - XXIII" (typescript poems). 2 leaves. "Stephen Spender Sept."
Book Call number: PR6037.P47 T94 1950
circa 1930
1 56
"Peace and Justice at Dumbarton Oaks. Attributed to "A Former Member of the League Secretariat"
circa 1938
Undated Manuscripts
Box Folder
1 57
Autograph map. 1 leaf. Leonard Woolf.
Book Call number: DC16 .B16 1907
1 58
Autograph signature "Bunny Garnett"
Book Call number: PR6005.O393 P7 1963b
1 59
Accounting notes. 1 leaf. Leonard Woolf
Book Call number: Z323 .M95 1949
1 60
Bibliographic notes. 1 notecard. Trekkie Parsons.
Book Call number: PR6021.I7 M5 1927
1 61
Bibliographic notes. 1 notecard. Trekkie Parsons.
Book Call number: PR6013.R35 M37 1925
1 62
Correspondence note. 1 leaf. Lytton Strachey?
Book Call number: PR4872 .H4 1847
1 63
Genealogical notes. 2 leaves. Leslie Stephen?
Book Call number: PR5600 .E69 (volume 8)
1 64
"The House" Typescript poem. 1 leaf. Barbara Noel Scott.
Book Call number: PR6069.C58 I8 1965
1 65
Literary fragments. 2 leaves. Philip Syndey Woolf?
Book Call number: PA6801 .A2 1872 (vol. 1)
1 66
Map and notes
Book Call number: DS490.N6 I4 1899
1 67
Travel notes
1 68
Travel notes
Book Call number: DF716 .B34 1909

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Bloomsbury group

Personal Names

  • Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969 -- Library
  • Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Library

Other Creators

  • Personal Names
    • Bell, Clive, 1881-1964 (creator)
    • Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961 (creator)
    • Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974 (creator)
    • Bosanquet, Theodora (creator)
    • Collins, W. J. (William John Townsend) (creator)
    • Fry, Roger, 1866-1934 (creator)
    • Moore, G. E. (George Edward), 1873-1958 (creator)
    • Nicolson, Nigel (creator)
    • Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 (creator)
    • Sassoon, Philip, Sir, 1888-1939 (creator)
    • Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995 (creator)
    • Stephen, Leslie, 1832-1904 (creator)
    • Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932 (creator)
    • Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 (creator)
    Corporate Names
    • George Allen & Unwin Ltd. (creator)
    • Heinemann (Firm) (creator)
    • Hogarth Press (creator)
    • Labour Party (Great Britain). Publicity Department (creator)
    • Trade Union Congress. Publicity Department (creator)