Just Listen: The Duchess and the Jeweller

Published: Oct. 2, 2019, 5 p.m.

In March 1941, Virginia Woolf wrote a letter to her husband Leonard.\xa0It would be the last letter to her beloved.\xa0On the 28th\xa0of that month, she filled the pockets of her overcoat with stones and walked into the River Ouse, which ran near her home.\xa0Her body was not discovered until the following month. Here is Virginia Woolf\u2019s last letter to her husband Leonard.\xa0It is a love letter, written in the pain of mental illness and the heavy shadows of despair.