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John Maynard-Keynes, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from John Maynard Keynes to Duncan Grant

20 September 1918

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Created by
David Garnett 1892–1981
Recipient
Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Date
20 September 1918
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Created by
John Maynard-Keynes 1883 – 1946
Recipient
Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title
Letter from John Maynard Keynes to Duncan Grant
Date
20 September 1918
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference
TGA 20078/1/44/74

Description

This letter was originally thought to be from David Garnett and Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant, but John Maynard Keynes has since been identified as the author. In the letter Maynard Keynes invites Grant to attend Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Coliseum. He enquires whether Lady Ottoline Morrell, Edward Wolfe, Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Ethel Grant, Jane Strachey, Dorothy Bussy, or (jokingly) Jack Hobbs the cricketer might like to join them. After attending this performance with Grant and others, Maynard Keynes met his future wife, the ballerina Lydia Lopokova, for the first time.

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  • Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
    • Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
      • Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
        • Letter from John Maynard Keynes to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/74
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