Wednesday 25 April, 2007

Flinty

Tonight I had a wonderful dinner with the historian Norman MacKenzie, and his wife Gill. Norman was a friend of Leonard Woolf's and here he is showing me the 500 year old flint wall at Monk's House, the house where the Woolf's lived for the last decades of their lives. We were joined by Beth Ingliss the librarian who was in charge of the Leonard Woolf archives at the University of Sussex for thirty years. It was a very valuable night for me - to finally speak to people who knew the man, argued with him and 'stood behind him at the butchers'. It makes my work seem less distant.