BIB_ID
282753
Accession number
MA 3448.51
Creator
Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961.
Display Date
[1919?] May 30.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, special gift of the Gramercy Park Foundation (Mrs. Michael Tucker), 1980.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 18.2 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).
Summary
Asking him about his summer plans and mentioning that Clive Bell, Roger Fry, and others will be staying with her; reporting that a servant tried to get rid of the nurse by "saying we were a most disreputable household, that Clive & I both had affairs, etc." and that now she plans to get rid of this servant; describing a dinner party Ottoline Morrell arranged "to which she asked none of us but Virginia [Woolf]" and "at the last moment wouldn't give ... on account of some row with [Serge] Diaghilev."
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