Virginia's Last Note to Leonard
Virginia Woolf Web
TO: LEONARD WOOLF
Rodmell,
Sussex
Tuesday [18? March 1941]
Dearest,
I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we cant go through mother of
those terrible times. And I shant recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and
cant concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given
me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone
could be. I dont think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease
came. I cant fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your life, that without
me you could work. And you will I know. You see I cant even write this properly.
I cant read. What I want to say is that I owe all the happiness of my life to you.
You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that--
everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.
Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I cant go on
spoiling your life any longer.
I dont think two people could have been happier than we have been.
V.
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