Clive Bell Letters to Saxon Sydney-Turner: Finding Aid mssHM 57610-57631
Gayle M. Richardson
The Huntington Library
December 2023
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Title: Clive Bell letters to Saxon Sydney-Turner
Creator:
Bell, Clive,
1881-1964
Identifier/Call Number: mssHM 57610-57631
Physical Description:
1.25 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1905-1915
Abstract: A collection of material related to
Clive Bell, English art critic and member of the Bloomsbury Group.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Clive Bell letters to Saxon Sydney-Turner, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Sotheby's (lot 231), December 1980.
Clive Bell (1881-1964) was an English art critic and a central figure in the Bloomsbury
group -- a group of friends, artists, writers, and intellectuals focused on the importance
of the arts. Bell's major works of criticism include "Art," "Since Cezanne," and
"Civilization." He was married to the painter Vanessa Bell, who was the sister of Virginia
Woolf; they had two sons Julian and Quentin. By 1914, their marriage was over, but they
never officially separated or divorced and entered into relationships with other people;
Clive Bell raised Angelica (Bell) Garnett as his own child though her father was the painter
Duncan Grant.
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.
Processed by Rebecca Tuttle, April 1998; in December 2023, Gayle M. Richardson created the
finding aid.
Arranged chronologically.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Bloomsbury group
English literature -- 20th century
Ephemera
Letters (correspondence)
Poems
Stephen, Thoby,
1880-1906
Strachey, Lytton,
1880-1932
Sydney-Turner, Saxon, 1880-1962
Woolf, Virginia,
1882-1941
Box 1, Folder 1-23
Clive Bell letters to Saxon Sydney-Turner 1905-1915