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The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume I

August 1919 —

August 1919

To Mrs. Virginia Woolf

This is the first day I am up again and able to write letters. I have been rather badly ill, and it has left me for the moment without an idea … except that I must go abroad into a Sanatorium until next April. I can't take a page 241 villa or manage anything for the next six months. I must just lie in the air and try and turn into a decent creature. Do not think I am forgetful of you. You would not believe me if you knew how often you are in my heart and mind, I love thinking of you. I expect Asheham is a glory these days.

I will write again very soon. This is just really a wave. I would I were a crocodile. According to your Sir Thomas Browne it is the only creature who does not cough: “Although we read much of their Tears we find nothing of that motion.” Thrice happy oviparous quadruped!