A Legacy Of Lesbian Love Letters (No 11) - DEAR SAPPHO

Virginia Woolf

1927
Look here Vita - throw over your man, and we'll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle
of wine and get tipsy, and I'll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads - They won't stir by day, only by dark on the river.  Think of that.  Throw over your man, I say, and come.

Vita Sacksville-West

VIRGINIA TO VITA
The British writer Virginia Woolf met another British writer Vita Sakville-West on December 14, 1922.  In her journal Woolf described Vita as a ''grenadier; hard; handsome; manly . . .'' who made her feel ''virgin, shy and schoolgirlish . . . '' Woolf admitted her infatuation with this ''pronounced Sapphist'' and remained devoted to Vita for the rest of her life.  The letters which document the peak moments of their affair, and from which this letter is taken, are found in The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 3, edited by Nigel Nicholson and Joanna Trautmann.
From the book
DEAR SAPPHO A Legacy of Lesbian Lover Letters
by KAY TURNER
PUBLISHERS:  THAMES AND HUDSON, 1996