These two lectures exist in a thirty-eight-page ‘mutilated exercise book’, with Virginia Stephen's page numbers beginning on 73. Besides the pieces about Benvenuto Cellini and the dramatic, the notebook contains a fragment that seems to be about Violet Dickinson at Fritham, some notes on Aeschylus and Euripedes, and a fragment of what seems to be an unfinished novel.

S. P. Rosenbaum discovered these works and identified them as lectures. In 1994, he sent his clean transcriptions to me, along with an introduction, both of which had been intended for The Charleston Magazine but were never published there; instead, his introduction was folded, with revisions, into sections of Edwardian Bloomsbury (152, 165–7). Pat generously allowed me to use his transcriptions to check and sometimes correct my own, though any remaining errors are mine. To suggest the look of Stephen's manuscripts, I have retained her line lengths and spacing and reproduced marginal and interlinear inserts where they occur. All grammitical slips and word underlinings are hers.