Blogging Woolf

In a Nov. 21 letter to The Guardian, Richard Shone wrote that Jeremy Hutchinson was the last surviving person to have known Virginia Woolf. He was wrong, as Blogging Woolf noted on Facebook. And Cecil Woolf has set him straight.

In his Nov. 26 letter to that same publication Cecil, nephew of Leonard and Virginia, wrote:

Richard Shone’s opening statement in his letter (Obituaries, 21 November) that “Jeremy Hutchinson … was the last surviving person to have known Virginia Woolf”, is not quite correct. I was a schoolboy when I visited my aunt Virginia and my uncle Leonard (one of my father’s elder brothers) at both Monk’s House and at Tavistock Square, or they visited my family in Buckinghamshire.

Cecil shared his memories of Leonard and Virginia in his monograph The Other Boy at the Hogarth Press, published in June by his own London publishing house, after celebrating his 90th birthday on Feb. 20.

Cecil Woolf at 46 Gordon Square, London