| Evidence: | Leonard Woolf to Desmond MacCarthy, 26 February 1905:
'The books you gave me were a godsend at once. I had to travel for two nights & a day in a bullock waggon through the jungle in order to reach this place [Jaffna]. For discomfort it was simply hell. I had to lie on my back on the hard floor of the waggon & was battered & jolted along for 36 hours but I took one of the small Shakespeare volumes with me in my pocket, & it helped me to forget my aching bones.'
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| Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 28 Dec 1904 and 5 Jan 1905 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Ceylon | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | other location: On board bullock wagon | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Leonard Woolf |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 25 Nov 1880 |
| Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
| Occupation: | Colonial civil servant |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | England |
| Country of experience: | Ceylon |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Shakespeare |
| Title: | n/a |
| Genre: | Drama, Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | Oxford press miniature edition |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 19682 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | n/a | |
| Editor: | Frederic Spotts | |
| Title: | Letters of Leonard Woolf | |
| Place of Publication: | London | |
| Date of Publication: | 1990 | |
| Vol: | n/a | |
| Page: | 80 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Frederic Spotts (ed.), Letters of Leonard Woolf (London, 1990), p. 80, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19682, accessed: 28 March 2023 | |
| See p.80 n.1 in source for identification of edition of text. |
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