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Midland Bank Limited check, 5.5 x 3, filled out and signed by Woolf, "Virginia Woolf," payable to her husband Leonard Woolf for £1, November 30, 1927; endorsed on the reverse by Leonard Woolf. Includes Woolf's original checkbook, 7.5 x 3, with twenty-five attached check stubs bearing notations in Woolf's own hand, dated between December 1930 and February 1931. In very good to fine condition, with some light soiling and a crease to the lower right corner.
After a prolonged courtship that witnessed Leonard proposing on three occasions, Virginia and Leonard Woolf married on August 10, 1912, soon becoming an influential couple within the Bloomsbury Group. Woolf's lauded stream-of-consciousness novel To The Lighthouse was published seven months prior on May 5, 1927. An exceptionally uncommon group of items related to the modernist scribe.
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