Scope and arrangement
This collection consists of 93 letters (55 t. l. s., 28 a. l. s., 10 a. n. s.) from Angelica Garnett to Richard Lipsett and one letter from Lipsett to "Milbs and Mollie". The letters date from May 15, 1978 to December 28, 2009. Subjects discussed include Virginia Woolf; Vanessa Bell; the Berg Collection letters written by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell to each other; Charleston, the East Sussex country home of Vanessa Bell, her husband, Clive Bell, and her lover, Duncan Grant, which became a meeting place for the Bloomsbury Group; Duncan Grant; art historian Quentin Bell (Garnett's half-brother); biographers of Bloomsbury Group members and scholars of their works; and Angelica Garnett's personal life.