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Artifact - Lytton Strachey's Letter to Virginia Woolf

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Original Owner - Lytton Strachey

Type - Letter

Effects - Words on the paper change while reading

Downsides - Causes insanity

Activation - Reading

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Section - Clio-362A

Class F-3

Aisle - 731185-6814

Shelf - 48572-6873-300

Date of Collection -

Origin - Giles Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932) was a British writer and critic. Strachey first met Virginia Woolf, at the time Stephen, when he was twenty five and she was twenty three when he became a Scholar at Trinity College in Cambridge. Among the friends he made were Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf and Saxon Sydney-Turner along with the latte's sisters Vanessa and Virginia. Although an outgoing and friendly guy Strachey was the type of person who was always ill. On days where he was ill and laid up in bed his friends would visit but the one who visited the most was Virginia. Others believed that she was smitten with Strachey however that wasn't the case as he was already in a relationship with the painter Dora Carrington along with her husband Ralph Partridge as it was known in secret that Strachey was bisexual leaning closer to gay. Dora was in love with him and married Partridge to secure the three-way relationship. A week prior to his death Strachey wrote three letters, one to Carrington, one to Partridge and one to Virginia who had married her husband by then. It's unknown what the letters to Carrington and Partridge said however two months later Carrington killed herself and Partridge married a woman who he fell in love with (It is unknown if Strachey's letters were the cause of these changes as their letters are missing and considered destroyed). In line with the time line, two months after receiving her letter Virginia Woolf started to lose her mind. She did well for nine years when it is assumed she made the mistake of reading the letter from her dear deceased friend one more time. Following in Carrington's footsteps she killed herself.

Effect - Words on the paper that was mailed to Woolf change while reading leading to insanity in the reader.

Collection - Speculation, and without proof that's all this is, is that because Strachey was homosexual he wanted no man to be with Partridge and his resolve turned his lover straight, suggesting that if the letter is discovered that might be the effects. With that in mind the letters to his female companions would be able to lead to insanity and suicide.