Woolf, Virginia

2 pages (10 x 7 3/4 in.; 253 x 197 mm.), signed "Virginia Woolf", on Hogarth House letterhead paper, purple ink; with autograph envelope; formerly folded, offset from another manuscript.

"I have received your very kind letter in which you ask me whether you may publish translations from some of my writings in your review, Europe... It will give me great pleasure to agree to this on the terms you mention, on the understanding of course that the translation is carefully made ."

Woolf here responds to Paul Colin's invitation to translate and publish material from her third novel Jacob's Room (1922), and collection of short fiction Monday or Tuesday (1921)  in the French Literary magazine Europe, which began publication in early 1923. Her work was ultimately featured in the 15 March 1923 issue under the title, "La tache sur le mur." Woolf goes on to inquire if Colin would be interested in undertaking and issuing a French translation of Jacob's Room — A project which never came to fruition under Colin's stewardship. 

Full Transcription: 

"Cher M. Colin,

I have received your very kind letter in which you ask me whether you may publish translations from some of my writings in your review, Europe.

I understand from your letter that you would like to translate & publish some extracts from Monday or Tuesday & my novel Jacob's Room. It will give me great pleasure to agree to this on the terms you mention, on the understanding of course that the translation is carefully made. I have already received a suggestion that Jacob's Room should be translated, and should appear in France in book form. I have not yet made any arrangements about this, but should be glad to know whether you can tell me when you would be able to publish it, & also whether you would wish to issue it afterwards as a book. 

It will give me great pleasure to send you copies of of (sic) my novels, The Voyage Out, Night and Day, & Jacob's Room, & I should be much obliged if you would enter my name as a subscriber to Europe, & would inform me of the amount of the subscription. 

From what my friends Frances Birrell & Roger Fry tell me of your aims, I have much pleasure in thinking that my writing will appear under your Editorship, & wish you every success in your most interesting undertaking. 

Believe me, dear M. Colin,
Yours sincerely, 
Virginia Woolf"