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