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Autograph postcard signed : Saint-Tropez, to John Maynard Keynes, [1921?].

BIB_ID
282839
Accession number
MA 3448.93
Creator
Bell, Quentin.
Display Date
[1921?].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, special gift of the Gramercy Park Foundation (Mrs. Michael Tucker), 1980.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 9 x 14 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).
Signed with the initials "Q. S. B."
Vanessa Bell refers to this postcard in a letter to Keynes dated Dec. 6, 1921 (MA 3448.59 in this collection): "Did you get a card from Quentin asking for more Weekly Mirrors?"
With postmark; addressed to "Mr. Keynes, Kings College, Cambridge."
Written on a b&w postcard that shows the Place du Révelin in Saint-Tropez (Editions J. Brun et Cie, Carpentras).
Summary
Asking him to send the "Weekly Daily Mirror" again; denying that he is "get[ting] fat because of jam" and blaming it on "the beastly suet pudding" he ate in London.