Reviews: Visiting the Louvre

This is the second installment of the new, four-volume collected letters of Katherine Mansfield, featuring the correspondents from K to Z, except for the letters to her husband John Middleton Murry, which would be published separately. 1 Thanks to the mysterious rules that govern coincidences, while the first volume was predominantly peopled by her relatives, this one promises a wider range of better known, even famous acquaintances from the pantheon of early twentieth-century public and cultural life.And here lies both the immense attraction and the disappointment, albeit fleeting, of this volume.The table of contents does feature such names as Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, Frank Swinnerton, Hugh Walpole, and, of course, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, but the introduction also discloses that many letters, either partially or in their entirety, did not survive.Undoubtedly, the greatest regret is attached to the complete lack of any letters to D. H. Lawrence, and there are just two drafts to his wife Frieda.Equally unfortunate is