Virginia and Leonard Woolf, 23 July 1912. “It was too funny…[Virginia rushed upstairs to change into her] best Turkish cloak and satin slippers and so on…She made great eyes at Woolf whom she called markedly Leonard which seems to be a little forward. Her method of wooing is to talk about nothing but fucking and [illegible] which she calls with a great leer copulation and WCs and I dare say she will be successful, I hope so anyway.” - Adrian Stephen, younger brother of Virginia Woolf, in a 1911 letter to Duncan Grant concerning Leonard and Virginia’s courtship.

Virginia and Leonard Woolf, 23 July 1912.

“It was too funny…[Virginia rushed upstairs to change into her] best Turkish cloak and satin slippers and so on…She made great eyes at Woolf whom she called markedly Leonard which seems to be a little forward. Her method of wooing is to talk about nothing but fucking and [illegible] which she calls with a great leer copulation and WCs and I dare say she will be successful, I hope so anyway.”
- Adrian Stephen, younger brother of Virginia Woolf, in a 1911 letter to Duncan Grant concerning Leonard and Virginia’s courtship.

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