{"id":4851,"date":"2011-03-28T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2011-03-28T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:40:11","slug":"virginia-wolfes-last-letter-to-her-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4851","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Wolfe\u2019s Last Letter to her Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Virginia Woolf&#8217;s last letter to her husband, Leonard, reads<\/i>: <\/p>\n<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wolfe-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Dearest,<\/p>\n<p>I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can&#8217;t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan&#8217;t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can&#8217;t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don&#8217;t think two people could have been happier till this terrible disease came. I can&#8217;t fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can&#8217;t even write this properly. I can&#8217;t read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that &#8211; everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t go on spoiling your life any longer.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think two people could have been happier than we have been.<\/p>\n<p>V.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia Woolf&#8217;s last letter to her husband, Leonard, reads: Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can&#8217;t go through <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4851\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/wolfe.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"132\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}