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B. J. Kirkpatrick, A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf (rev. ed., 1967).

Unpublished letter in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.

In her diary entry for January 6th, 1925, Virginia Woolf, after commenting on the difficulties she encountered in writing Mrs. Dalloway, concludes: "Anyhow it is sent off to Clark's [Hogarth's printer], and proofs will come next week. This is for Harcourt Brace, who has accepted without seeing and raised me to 15 p.c." A Writer's Diary (1959), p. 71.

It is possible, of course, that Virginia Woolf first corrected the proofs intended for Hogarth's printer and then transcribed the revisions onto the proofs intended for Harcourt. The large number of revisions made only in the Harcourt edition indicates that she not only transcribed the revisions but also read Harcourt's set of proofs independently. If she corrected Hogarth's proofs first, in all probability she transcribed the revisions and then reread Harcourt's entire set of proofs, making additional changes which she did not add to the Hogarth proofs. After sending the revised proofs to Harcourt, she once again read the Hogarth proofs and made further changes.

A Writer's Diary, see pp. 49, 71, 103, 106, 173-174, and passim.

The Uniform Edition of Mrs. Dalloway, published by the Hogarth Press, is the commonly available English edition of the novel. It is actually the third English edition. A collation of the Uniform Edition and the first English edition reveals numerous variants, but since both the second edition (1942) and the third edition (1947) were published by Leonard Woolf after Virginia Woolf's death, both must be viewed as edited editions. Virginia Woolf herself supervised the publication of only the first editions. The Harcourt edition has never been re-set.