On 15 November 1932 Virginia Woolf reported that West was making excuses for being 9 months and ten days late with a manuscript.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
5: 126
The work when published bore an illustration by John Banting
.
Reception
Nancy Cunard
NC
was also the exemplary subject for painters and photographers—Nina Hamnett
(who did a drawing of her for ten guineas at the request of Lady Cunard
),
Hamnett, Nina. Laughing Torso. Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932.
The original book was 855 pages long; it measured twelve inches by ten and half; it was two inches thick; it weighed eight pounds. The title, NEGRO, ran diagonally in large red capitals across...