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TLS, one page, 4.75 x 7.75, Tavistock Square letterhead, May 14, 1926. Letter to "Miss Mcafee," in part: "I am ashamed not to have written before to have thanked you for the very interesting article which you were so good as to send me. It was a great pleasure to read the kind things you said about my work, when there was so much that interested me in the article as a whole. It further proves a theory of mine that American critics are much more on the alert at present than English. You ask me about a critical article for your September number. I am writing two, one on De Quincey which will appear in the Times Literary Supplement in August or September; the other on How should one read a book? which will be published by the Hogarth Press in October. If either would interest you, please let me know, and I will try to arrange for more or less simultaneous publication." Nicely double-matted and framed with a portrait to an overall size of 15 x 13. In fine condition.
Woolf's correspondent was Helen McAfee, then assistant editor of the Yale Review under founding editor Wilbur Cross and later the journal's managing editor. Their correspondence continued for at least a decade, encompassing Woolf's 1932 essay ‘Letter to a Young Poet,’ among other contributions. Here, Woolf offers McAfee two essays then in progress: one on Thomas De Quincey, published several months later in the Times Literary Supplement as ‘Impassioned Prose’ (16 September 1926), and ‘How should one read a book?,’ which appeared in the Yale Review on September 1, 1926, and was later revised as the concluding essay of The Common Reader: Second Series (1932). Written less than four months before its first publication, the letter documents the early publication history of one of Woolf's best-known essays, showing her arranging its appearance in the Yale Review while seeking “more or less simultaneous publication” on both sides of the Atlantic.
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