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Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to John Maynard Keynes, [1913 Sept. 10].

BIB_ID
282580
Accession number
MA 3448.8
Creator
Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961.
Display Date
[1913 Sept. 10].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, special gift of the Gramercy Park Foundation (Mrs. Michael Tucker), 1980.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection that consists of 84 autograph letters, 3 typed letters, 7 postcards, and 3 telegrams. Most, but not all, are written by Vanessa Bell to John Maynard Keynes. Items in this collection are described in 97 individual records (MA 3448.1-97).
The date is based on Woolf's attempted suicide on Sept. 9, 1913. Cf. Regina Marler, ed., Selected letters of Vanessa Bell (Wakefield, RI: Moyer Bell, 1998), footnote on p. 142.
Written on Royal Economic Society stationery with a list of the editorial board, "From Mr. J.M. Keynes, Editor of the Economic Journal," and "Kings College, Cambridge" printed at the top. Bell ends her letter with "Forgive the theft of your paper!"
Summary
Describing one of Virginia Woolf's suicide attempts: "Virginia was very much depressed yesterday after hearing from the doctors that she must have a rest cure. She managed while alone for a few minutes at tea time to get hold of veronal and medinal & took a large quantity."