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Philip Morrell

 

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Virginia Woolf : Jacob's Room

Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938: 'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] second, that you should actually have read, still more marvellously have liked, Night and Day'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell      Print: Book

  

Virginia Woolf : Night and Day

Virginia Woolf to Philip Morrell, 3 February 1938: 'I'm delighted with -- first: your liking Jacobs Room [...] second, that you should actually have read, still more marvellously have liked, Night and Day'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell      Print: Book

  

John Middleton Murry : Review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems

29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas for tea; Brett, Ottoline, 3 children & Philip. The string which united everything together was Philip's attack on Murry in The Nation for his review of Sassoon [...] to prove his case Philip read Murry's article, his letter, & his letter to Murry, three times over, so I thought, emphasising his points, & lifting his finger to make us attend. And there was Sassoon's letter of gratitude too. I think Ott. was a little bored.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Philip Morell : Letter to John Middleton Murry regarding his review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems, in The Nation 13 July 1918

29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas for tea; Brett, Ottoline, 3 children & Philip. The string which united everything together was Philip's attack on Murry in The Nation for his review of Sassoon [...] to prove his case Philip read Murry's article, his letter, & his letter to Murry, three times over, so I thought, emphasising his points, & lifting his finger to make us attend. And there was Sassoon's letter of gratitude too. I think Ott. was a little bored.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell      

  

Siegfried Sassoon : Letter to Philip Morrell regarding his defence of his work against John Middleton Murry's review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and Other Poems, in The Nation 13 July 1918

29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas for tea; Brett, Ottoline, 3 children & Philip. The string which united everything together was Philip's attack on Murry in The Nation for his review of Sassoon [...] to prove his case Philip read Murry's article, his letter, & his letter to Murry, three times over, so I thought, emphasising his points, & lifting his finger to make us attend. And there was Sassoon's letter of gratitude too. I think Ott. was a little bored.'

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Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell      

  

Jane Austen : Emma

Thursday 24 June 1937: 'A letter from Ott. [...] She has been [italics]very[end italics] ill [following stroke] [...] but is recovering at Tunbridge Wells. Pipsy reads Emma to her, & she reads H. James to herself.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Morrell      Print: Book

 

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