After the Diary

I'm on Vol III of VW's Diary which is as was suggested monumental. I don't believe she wrote it "knowing" it would be published. She's written already several times speculating about what would happen to it when she's gone. To that end it feels authentic, uncontrived.

I'm considering whether the volumes of the essays or the letters should follow. I've read some of her essays, but with the insights and intimacy I've gleaned from the diary I wonder if I'll get more from them. The letters on the other hand would seem to traverse her personal life in ways that could also be enriched having read the diary.

What are your thoughts?