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1925181601London: Hogarth Press 1925. Can't we exchange cages for a lark How horrified all the professors would be! First edition Hugh Walpole's copy with his morocco bookplate and ownership signature dated May 1925 to the front endpapers. The two writers had a long affectionate friendship often reading each other's novels and discussing their writing over tea or in letters. They first met in 1928 when Walpole presented Woolf with the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for To the Lighthouse a novel Walpole wrote had "liberated" him. After the ceremony she invited him to dinner at Tavistock Square an occasion he recorded in his journal. "Evening enchanting - with the Woolfs and Lydia Lopokova. It had a kind of fairy quality about it. I was diffident but Virginia encouraged me talking about writing as though we were on a level" quoted in Hart-Davis p. 289. Woolf and Walpole came from different literary schools which made for lively conversation and correspondence - Walpole's biographer Rupert Hart-Davis counted 60 letters from Woolf among his papers. In one memorable exchange Woolf contrasts their different styles. "Well - I'm very much interested about unreality and The Waves - we must discuss it. I mean why do you think The Waves unreal and why was that the very word I was using of Judith Paris. You're real to some - I to others. Who's to decide what reality is. Lord - how tired I am of being caged with Aldous Joyce and Lawrence! Can't we exchange cages for a lark How horrified all the professors would be!" Letters vol. 4 p. 402. In another Woolf praises Walpole's autobiographical novel The Apple Trees which took its title from a passage in The Waves. "Of all literature yes I think this is more or less true I love autobiography most. In fact I sometimes think only autobiography is literature - novels are what we peel off and come at last to the core which is only you or me. And I think this little book - why so small - peels off all the things I don't like in fiction and leaves the thing I do like - you" Letters vol. 5 p. 142. The two saw one another for the last time on 30 April 1940. Walpole movingly recorded the meeting in his journal: "Virginia Woolf had tea alone with me yesterday. She looked like a beautiful Victorian lady of fifty years ago. She had been lecturing in Brighton on the novel and had said that I and my contemporaries with our roots in the old pre-1914 world had been like men on a tower firmly placed. I said that I had loved her always. She asked why. I gave my reasons and she seemed pleased" quoted in Hart-Davis p. 422. Following Woolf's death the following year Walpole set down his final thoughts on his friend's writing "I think Mrs. Dalloway her best novel and The Waves her most beautiful poem" and on their friendship: "I told her more than I ever told any other human being more than I shall ever tell any human being again. I discovered that beneath the mocking humour the sometimes stern enquiry the sharp wonder the restless investigation there was a kindness of heart and tenderness of feeling rich with an intense personal charity. I shall miss her all my life" quoted in Stape pp. 187 190. His own death followed just two months later. Octavo. Original dark red cloth spine lettered in gilt. Housed in a custom green cloth folding box. Minimal rubbing to cloth a little foxing to text block edges. A near-fine copy. Kirkpatrick A9a; Woolmer 82. Rupert Hart-Davis Hugh Walpole 1952; J. H. Stape Virginia Woolf: Interviews and Recollections 1994; Virginia Woolf The Letters 1975-80. hardcover

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