Letter from Virginia Woolf to Gladys Easdale
30 March [1936]
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Monday, March 30th [1936]
Dear Mrs Easdale,
The daffodils came this morning,
quite fresh and very lovely. I think I
know the valley they came from?
remember picking daffodils there one spring
long ago when we had a home at Lyme.
Thank you so much for sending them.
I agree about the Cow. Why kill it?
Still, what one would do with a swimming
cow I don't know. It might have
taken to other practices if you had it.
I'm trying to finish my proofs, and hope
you will like the book, if it should
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ever come out, which I begin to doubt. But
I'm afraid it's too long and too ambitious and a
failure.
I'm sorry you should say the same
of your book, but I don't agree.
If you had used proper names, I daresay
the public interest would have been
excited. They like personalities, not ideas.
Excuse this rambling letter. My
eyes are so tired after reading proofs and my
brain too.
Yours very [?]
Virginia Woolf