Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1928) was the half-sister of the 6th Duke of Portland. In 1902 she married Philip Morrell in 1902 and until 1915, they lived in Bloomsbury where she established herself as a literary and political hostess. From 1915 they lived at Garsington Manor, near Oxford. She enjoyed socialising and shared Bloomsbury's interest in contemporary art. At Garsington she attracted a wide variety of artists and writers and was associated particularly Lytton Strachey, Henry Lamb, Aldous Huxley and Bertrand Russell. The collection includes 40 volumes of journals between 1909 and 1938, visitors' books annd 340 of the letters which she wrote to Lytton Strachey.
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