“By and large, his somewhat compulsive tendency to regulate and keep track—he noted his mileage every day, recorded how much they spent on every item of clothing, made long lists of gardening seeds to purchase, entered into Sebastopolian campaigns of protest letters—was steadying for Virginia Woolf, though sometimes it has a quality both touching and absurd. When she had an affair of some four years with Vita Sackville-West (who is the subject of a previous biography of Glendinning’s), he expressed no overt jealousy, but on one occasion wrote his wife’s lover an admonishing note: ‘It has been proved over & over again in the last 10 years that even 2 late nights running are definitely dangerous for her & this time it was 7 or 8.’”

- From “Village Scribe: Leonard Woolf, Bloomsbury’s Older Brother” by Rachel Cohen, The New Yorker.

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