Manuscripts

Clive Bell letter to Kerrison Preston

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Description: Accompanied by a carbon copy of Preston's letter to Clive Bell, March 4, 1914.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1914 March 6.
Call number: mssHM 35065
Creator: Bell, Clive (1881-1964)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Kerrison Preston, June 1971.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Clive Bell letters to Saxon Sydney-Turner

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A collection of letters, poems and ephemera related to Clive Bell. The letters are from Bell to his friend Saxon Sydney-Turner; they discuss family, travel plans, plays, music, their jointly authored book "Euphrosyne" and other personal subjects. The letters include references to his sister-in-law, Virginia Woolf, and fellow Bloomsbury friends Thoby Stephen and Lytton Strachey. The collection also includes two poems by Clive Bell, "With a box of caramels Boissier" and "Spring;" and one folder of printed material.

mssHM 57610-57631

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Clive Bell letters to Saxon Sydney-Turner

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mssHM 57610-57631

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Leonard Woolf letters to Clive and Julian Bell

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Eighteen letters by Woolf to fellow Bloomsbury friend Clive Bell and nephew Julian Bell discuss British politics prior to WWII and give details of Woolf's involvement in the League of Nations and the Labor Party. There are references to Virginia Woolf throughout the letters, as he discusses family, travel plans, and other personal matters

mssHM 57680-57697

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Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell

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A collection of letters from Saxon Sydney-Turner to fellow Bloomsbury friend Clive Bell. The letters discuss mutual friends, including Thoby Stephen, plays, symphonies, their co-authored book Euphrosyne, and other personal matters. The collection also includes one drawing and several poems by Sydney-Turner.

mssHM 57632-57679

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Saxon Sydney-Turner letters to Clive Bell

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mssHM 57632-57679

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Thoby Stephen letters to Clive Bell

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A collection of fifty-six letters from Thoby Stephen to friend and fellow Bloomsbury member Clive Bell; the letters discuss friends, art, literature, meeting plans, travel, and other personal matters. There are descriptions of the places and people he visited on his tour of Greece, including Montenegro and the Parthenon; there are also drawings by Stephen scattered throughout the letters.

mssHM 57554-57609

Clive Bell letter to Kerrison Preston

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