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Copyright \u00a9 The Estate of Virginia Woolf, 2011. <\/p><\/div>\n

Virginia Woolf, who had no children of her own, famously directed much of her maternal energy to the offspring of Vanessa Bell, her sole full sister and long-standing dust-jacket designer. Vanessa\u2019s oldest son Julian was Woolf\u2019s particular favorite. He was named for Virginia\u2019s brother\u00a0Julian\u00a0Thoby Stephen, who died of typhoid at the age of twenty-six on a trip to Greece. Thoby, as he was called, inspired Woolf to write Jacob\u2019s Room<\/em>, in which she rendered the protagonist chiefly through others\u2019 memories; the pain of his loss was such that, even in fiction, she strained against summoning him by direct account.<\/p>\n

When the younger Julian\u00a0decided to pursue poetry, his aunt Virginia offered the blend of succor and static seen in this previously unpublished letter. Composed in Woolf\u2019s signature purple ink, and dated simply \u201cThursday,\u201d the letter reads in full:\u00a0\u201cThursday. My dear\u00a0Julian. I like the poem very much. It still wants CURRENCY I think. When did you write it? It shall be the cornerstone of my new library at Rodmell. But this is to say\u2014please be here 7:30 sharp tomorrow (Friday) as we want you to drive Rachel & us to a restaurant.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The letter likely dates to November 1929. Woolf refers in her diary on November 30 to a dinner party at the Red Lion with \u201cJulian & Rachel.\u201d (Rachel was Rachel MacCarthy, daughter of writer Molly and editor Desmond MacCarthy.)\u00a0Rodmell is the location of the Woolfs\u2019 cottage, Monk\u2019s House, which the couple inhabited from 1919 until Virginia\u2019s death in 1941.\u00a0The poem she refers to is probably Julian\u2019s \u201cChaffinches,\u201d published in the Songs for Sixpence series of a small Cambridge publisher, a copy of which is indeed in the Woolfs\u2019 library at Washington State University in Pullman.<\/p>\n

Woolf\u2019s blunt criticism of Julian\u2019s poem, her dig that it might be mere youthful experiment, the leavening (yet peremptory) dollop of praise, and the call to chores all typify the complexity of their relationship. The following year, after Julian\u2019s first book of poems came out, Virginia declared, \u201cHe is no poet.\u201d She once described her relationship to him as \u201chalf sister, half mother, and half (but arithmetic denies this) the mocking stirring contemporary friend.\u201d Though she frequently expressed criticism of his writing, she ultimately published one of his books at the Hogarth Press.<\/p>\n

But Julian\u2019s career would be short-lived. Like his namesake Thoby, he did not see his thirtieth birthday. In his late twenties he took up the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War, enlisting as an ambulance driver, and was killed at the Battle of Brunete in 1937. Virginia committed suicide in 1941; this year marks the seventieth\u00a0anniversary of her death.<\/p>\n

Letter reproduced by permission of the Society of Authors, as the literary representative of the Estate. The letter is part of a Virginia Woolf collection currently held by Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sarah Funke Butler is a literary archivist and agent at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller. In 2009 she cocurated the exhibition This Perpetual Fight: Love and Loss in Virginia Woolf\u2019s Intimate Circle<\/a> at the Grolier Club in New York.
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