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Papers of Lyn Newman Woolf, Adeline Virginia (1882-1941) novelist, essayist and critic
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ALS to Hella Weyl

Reports the illnesses suffered by William, Edward and herself. Describes their succession of household helps ending with Viola Hawke, who is uncouth but very efficient. Mentions that she has had no success with the Virginia Woolf article she sent ot Anne Watkins. Asks for the Vagts' address in Connecticut. Registers a lack of response from Mr Sidney Lovett of Yale. Refers to the funding she is receiving through Mrs Ogilvy and Mrs Richard Price, and announces that she is going to look for an apartment in New York and hopes the Flexners will help her. Thanks Hella for the photograph of Margareta and Michael. Mentions the German attack on Russia and the U.S.A. occupation of Iceland.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

ALS to Hella Weyl

Reports that she is moving to a new apartment in Riverdale for which Mrs Price is raising the $50 a month rent. Writes that she met Mrs Morley who turned out to be the wife of F.V. Morley, brother of Christopher Morley and Felix Morley. He remembered Lyn from his days at Faber and Faber and hoped to arrange for her to review Virginia Woolf's 'Between the Acts' for the Nation and the Saturday Review of Literature. Asks to borrow all Virginia Woolf's previous works. Mentions Max's week in Wales and attendence at a conference in Coventry. Admits her reservations about the placements in Bermuda and Washington recommended by Keynes and Ed Earle. Sends news of William and Edward. Mentions Clare Millikan and George, Joan Rossetti, Appy Ogilvy, and Margareta.

Newman, Lyn (1901-1973) author and journalist

ALS to Lyn Newman

Discusses potential timescale for his next meeting with Lyn and his travel plans. Describes Vita Sackville-West and Virgina Woolfs' improvements to Monk's House, Rodmell. Mentions the state of economy and John Maynard Keynes' pessimism in their conversations on the subject. Reports that Raymond Mortimer and Roger Fry are staying with him. Gives his views on letters of Merimee and Walpole. Refers to an "excursion into the beau monde" which he found unchanged, where he socialised with Lord and Lady Gage, Maurice Baring and others. Mentions dining with Fanny and Ralph.

Bell, Arthur Clive Heward (1881-1964) art critic

ALS to Lyn Newman

Refers to the Sargent Florence party attended by Mrs Solomon and the Braithwaithes among others. Compares 'Ten Letter Writers' favourably against Virginia Woolf's 'New Common Reader', particularly regarding their treatments of Dorothy Osborne. Sends greetings to Lyn's sister and Geoffrey Marks. Hopes to see Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West when they visit Northampton, Massachusetts.

Kaffka, Elizabeth (fl 1933)

ALS to Lyn Newman

  • NewmanL/A/A1/17/1
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  • 28 Aug. 1931 (Date taken from postmark on envelope.)
  • Part of Papers of Lyn Newman

Covers her correspondence with Mrs Rosling, and her impending unemployment. Commiserates on Lyn's mushroom poisoning. Announces that she is going to the South of France then to Hamspray on her return. Mentions that she went to the fireworks at the Crystal Palace with Frankie Birrell and Raymond Mortimer, who are travelling to Venice. Refers to her visit to Charleston where she saw Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf and Lytton Strachey

Partridge, Frances Catherine (1900-2004) writer and literary journalist

ALS to Lyn Newman

Thanks Lyn for her letter. Complains of his own illness and depression. Describes his stay at Long Barn with Vita Sackville-West, Raymond Mortimer and Dorothy Wellesley during which they were all invalids. Mentions Vita's son Ben Nicolson. Invites Lyn to Sussex and proposes she also visit Rodmell. Reports that he has almost finished the Merimee letters. Discusses Virginia Woolf's novel "The Waves", which he says Vanessa has a copy of in order to design the cover. Refers to a "heart-to-heart" talk about the Hogarth Press that he had with Frankie Birrell and others.

Bell, Arthur Clive Heward (1881-1964) art critic

ALS to Lyn Newman

Covers Lyn's illness, and John's work on Charles II and his girlfriends. Suggests Lyn subscribe to the International Press Cutting Bureau, Fleet Street. Advice about Arnold Bennett's sister who is unable to support herself after his death. Suggests asking Leonard and Virginia Woolf to pass the matter on to Hugh Walpole, or contacting Lord Beaverbrook at the Evening Standard. Doubts whether Civil List would include the sister because there is already a widow and Dorothy Bennett. Ends with a picture of Lyn being hauled up the stairs in a pram.

Hayward, John Davy (1905-1965) editor, critic and bibliographer

ALS to Lyn Newman

Plans to make a reproduction of a drawing. Informs Lyn that regarding the Thackeray letter herself and Lady Butler have no objections to the suggested content of Lyn's book. Gives details about her grandparents marriage. Refers to Virginia Woolf, the Leslie Stephen sisters, and Stella Duckworth

Gordon, Catherine Evans (fl 1938-1939)

ALS to Lyn Newman

  • NewmanL/A/A1/3/1
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  • 1930 (Circa. Date estimated from content.)
  • Part of Papers of Lyn Newman

Thanks Lyn for her letter about his poems. Anticipates reading Lyn's book. Mentions Virginia Woolf's "misadventures in Cambridge".

Bell, Julian Heward (1908-1937) poet and essayist

ALS to Lyn Newman

Writes that Lyn's notes on Mrs - are so clear that a letter incorporating them can be sent. Discusses whose signatures to attach. Mentions Lord Arnold, Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Galsworthy (?) and Trevelyan.

Walpole, Sir Hugh Seymour (1884-1941) Knight and novelist

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