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A notebook lays open with handwritten purple text on recto page, headed with a Roman numeral "I" and heavily corrected, with additional handwritten notes on verso page.

The Waves draft
A pink passport page with a torn ragged edge shows a black-and-white photograph of a woman with short hair wearing a coat with a fur collar, a slip of paper signed "Virginia Woolf," and a stamp reading "Foreign Office, 22 Mar 1923."
Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind
A cream-colored book jacket with light green illustrations of waves and two human forms made of smaller green dotted ink, with brown flower icon and brown text reading "the Waves / Virginia Woolf / the Hogarth Press"
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The Waves (1931)

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
The Waves
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1931

: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature

: William Beekman Collection of Virginia Woolf and Her Circle

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  • A pink passport page with a torn ragged edge shows a black-and-white photograph of a woman with short hair wearing a coat with a fur collar, a slip of paper signed "Virginia Woolf," and a stamp reading "Foreign Office, 22 Mar 1923."

    Section 2: Fiction Introduction

  • A cream-colored book jacket with black shape made of smaller black dots, with long, light blue shape surrounded by waves drawn in black and light blue dots, with text reading " To the Lighthouse / Virginia Woolf"

    To the Lighthouse (1927)

  • A diary entry dated "22nd Oct." in the left margin beside a full page of text handwritten in slanted purple ink, with two holes punched in left margin.

    October 22, 1927

  • A folded, handwritten page of text dated at the start of each of three paragraphs, "Friday, 28th; Saturday, 29th; Sunday, 30th." The handwriting is written in a dark ink and is distinctly different from those written in Virginia Woolf's hand.

    Vita Sackville-West diary

  • A single typed page of text, moderately crossed out and corrected with typewritten additions.

    Orlando fragment

  • A notebook lays open with handwritten purple text on recto page, headed with a Roman numeral "I" and heavily corrected, with additional handwritten notes on verso page.

    The Waves draft

  • A cream-colored book jacket with light green illustrations of waves and two human forms made of smaller green dotted ink, with brown flower icon and brown text reading "the Waves / Virginia Woolf / the Hogarth Press"

    The Waves (1931)

  • A pink passport page with a torn ragged edge shows a black-and-white photograph of a woman with short hair wearing a coat with a fur collar, a slip of paper signed "Virginia Woolf," and a stamp reading "Foreign Office, 22 Mar 1923."

    Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind