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Zululand
21 March 1926
Dear Leonard & Virginia Woolf,
I was glad to get copies of “Turbott Wolfe” by the last mail. I hope the book will be a success.
I have been working for a year on another novel. After often revising it, and re-writing it six times, it is now in the final form of a long short-story. It will appear in a new monthly review called ‘Voorslag’ which I am helping to run here. This paper is edited by Roy Campbell (who wrote “The Flaming Terrapin” & and now lives in Natal) and the first number will appear in June. We want it to be very good, and I will keep you in touch with it. Campbell heard from “The Dial” the other day – they are keen about it.
I have written a review of Leys’ “Kenya” which will come out in “Voorslag”, also poems, etc. and if you care to send other books to me I will see that they are reviewed, though this isn’t a reading country.
I don’t know yet what my next book will be. I am doing a lot of work, but my personal affairs are in a kind of confusion, and it is hard at present to make great progress.
I may be going to live for a time either with the Campbell’s or with Gandhi’s son Manilal, who runs a newspaper in these parts for S[outh]. African Indians and lives in the remains of a Tolstoyan settlement of his father’s, at Phoenix, between here
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And Durban.
I am 22 and seething with energy. There is just a chance I may be able to go to England for a short time in 1927.
You must put up with all these personal details because you both are among my best friends although I have never met you.
I send you both my respect and love | William Plomer [signature]
Please tell me about the American edition of T. W. [Turbott Wolfe]