Unidad documental simple 67 - Letter from Leonard Woolf to R.C. Trevelyan

2 items: handwritten letter with typescript copy.

Jaffra, Ceylon. - Thanks Trevy for sending [Roger] Fry's book; has only had time to look at it briefly but it seems 'extremely interesting'; does not know if he will have time to read anything over the next couple of months, as, having returned on 1 February 'quite recovered' [from typhoid, see 17/66] he is going on Wednesday to the Pearl Fishery. There are about forty thousand people at Marichchikaddi, in a 'desert of sand surrounded by jungle', with only four Europeans to supervise 'everything including the fishing counting and selling of the Government oysters'; he will be one of them and thinks he will only have time for work. People say he is 'a fool' to go after being ill, as it is supposed to be 'very unhealthy', but he thinks this is exaggerated.