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LOT 1059:
BELL VANESSA: (1879-1961) English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury ...
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BELL VANESSA: (1879-1961) English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf. A.L.S., Vanessa, one page, 8vo, Clareville Grove, London, n.d. ('Tuesday'. c.1958-59), to Tom [Maschler]. Bell apologises for not having sent a reply before and explains that she will 'be off to Paris at the end of this week for a fortnight, so can't come to your party', and concludes by thanking Maschler for having asked her. VG
Tom Maschler (1933-2020) British publisher who, from 1960, was head of the publishing company Jonathan Cape for more than three decades. Maschler was also instrumental in establishing the Booker Prize in 1969.
Bell's letter is written from the home of her friend Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990), the English novelist who was intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set.
