Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West & Virginia Woolf

Author:Vita Sackville-West & Virginia Woolf [Sackville-West, Vita & Woolf, Virginia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Collections, Letters, Family & Relationships, Friendship, Literary Criticism, Women Authors, Feminist, General, Social Science, Feminism & Feminist Theory
ISBN: 9781473582408
Google: qtvgDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2021-02-04T23:53:03.235746+00:00

Letter from Vita

Long Barn

14 October

Darling, this is a letter written in a hurry and a furious temper to say that Harold is going to Berlin next week. Shall you be free on Tuesday if I come after lunch for a bit? We are so cross, but it appears to be inevitable. We only heard this morning. Berlin for three years!fn28 Good Lord deliver us.

I shan’t go there till the end of January.

Letter from Virginia

52 Tavistock Square

14 October

Never do I leave you without thinking, it’s for the last time. And the truth is, we gain as much as we lose by this. Since I am always certain you’ll be off and on with another next Thursday week (you say so yourself, bad creature, at the end of your last letter, which is where the viper carries its sting) since all our intercourse is tinged with this melancholy on my part and desire to be white nosed and so keep you half an instant longer, perhaps, as I say we gain in intensity what we lack in the sober comfortable virtues of a prolonged and safe and respectable and chaste and cold blooded friendship […]

Orlando will be a little book, with pictures and a map or two. I make it up in bed at night, as I walk the streets, everywhere. I want to see you in the lamplight, in your emeralds. In fact, I have never more wanted to see you than I do now – just to sit and look at you, and get you to talk, and then rapidly and secretly, correct certain doubtful points. About your teeth now and your temper. Is it true you grind your teeth at night? […] What and when was your moment of greatest disillusionment? […]

Please tell me beforehand when you will come, and for how long: unless the dolphin has died meanwhile and its colours are those of death and decomposition. If you’ve given yourself to Campbell, I’ll have no more to do with you, and so it shall be written, plainly, for all the world to read in Orlando.

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