"Did I tell you about Noel Coward? He is in search of culture, and thinks Bloomsbury a kind of place of pilgrimage. Will you come and meet him? He is a miracle, a prodigy. He can sing, dance, write plays, act, compose, and I daresay paint.—He rescued his whole family who kept boarding houses in Surbiton, and they are now affluent, but on the verge of bankruptcy, because he spends so much on cocktails. If he could only become like Bloomsbury he thinks he might be saved."
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Virginia Woolf to Vanessa Bell (25 March 1928), quoted in A Changing Perspective: The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Volume III: 1923–1928, ed. Nigel Nicolson (1977), p. 478
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