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Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist
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Papers of Lyn Newman

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  • 1900–1978 (Circa)

Correspondence with Bloomsbury Group, family and friends; journal and diaries; miscellaneous family papers; original work; papers relating to 'The Monologue' and Monologue Books.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Typescript letter unsigned to Lord Russell

Appreciation of Bertrand Russell's Autobiography. Refers to Dorothy Brett, the Eshers, and Maynard Keynes. Mentions her blood ties with the Locke family.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Photocopy of ALS to Leonard Woolf

Expresses pleasure over Leonard's letter on Animals at Cambridge. Apologises for not writing sooner due to working hard on the Monologue. Disagrees with his description of what a Christian knows and thinks. Argues that most Christians would hesitate to say that animals do not have souls. Mentions not being able to get a piano up the stairs of her lodgings in Cambridge.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Photocopy of ALS to Leonard Woolf

Written from Austria. Thanks Leonard and Virginia for their good wishes and present. Describes her holiday with Max.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Photocopy of ALS to Leonard Woolf

Mentions that she and Max are making their wills. Asks Leonard to be her literary executor and look after her journal. Thinks it impossible to let Max or Yda see it even after her death, but believes that it might be a document of "psychological interest" and therefore does not want it destroyed.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Photocopy of ALS to Leonard and Virginia Woolf

Sends her Princeton address. Describes the place they are staying in with friends in New York. Encourages the Woolfs to visit America. Mentions the "wild unspoilt country". Refers to Edward's schooling in a Princeton nursery and discusses the impact it will have on their plans to move. Hopes to start an American-style nursery school when she returns to Cross Farm. Mentions that she has been working at the Princeton University Library and her book on Fanny Kemble is going ahead well because of the material to which she has had access. Discusses the pros and cons of having books put on film. Hopes to make a research visit to Georgia to see Fanny's husband's plantations. Complains about not meeting enough Americans. Describes shopping in America.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Photocopy of ALS to Leonard Woolf

Remarks that she does not get much time to write. Mentions an operation on her uterus. Refers to her correspondence with Leonard in 1932 about fuchias and life. Describes the antics of her son William. Mentions the collapse of Yda's business. Asks after Virginia and Leonard and their garden at Rodmell.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Photocopy of ALS to Leonard Woolf

Expresses her distress at Virginia Woolf's death. Mentions that she is in exile in America with William and Edward. Refers to their correspondence about fuchias and life, and expresses her optimism for the human race. Reports that Max is still in Cambridge and Yda is married to "Peter Hazell of Hazell Viney & Watson [sic]".

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Photocopy of ALS to Leonard Woolf

Reports that she finally got Leonard's letter of 1941, and that she is back at Cross Farm. Mentions that Max is in the Foreign Office and they have the wife and boy of an Oxford Mathematician staying with them. Misses the New York schools for William and Edward. Sends news that Yda has a two year old son, but her husband was killed in Holland.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

Photocopy of ALS to Leonard Woolf

Thanks Leonard for advice on land tax at Cross Farm. Covers her search for live-in help, her manuscript, her choice of reading (George Eliot, Jane Austen, Tolstoy), Leonard's letter in the Observer, "Venture to the Interior", A. A. Jack's "Young Hamlet", the deaths of Hubert Henderson and Lyn's father, her mother's health, Edward's study for scholarship at Cambridge, the musical exploits of Max, William and Edward.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

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