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Acknowledgements
    First of all, my thanks go to the late Richard Garnett for his unstinting encouragement, for sharing his formidable knowledge and for allowing me unrestricted access to his father’s papers at Hilton Hall (these now reside at Northwestern University). Although Richard read this book in draft, my only regret is that he didn’t live to see it published. I am also grateful to Jane Garnett for her warm hospitality and her valuable insights into the family environment at Hilton.
    Henrietta Garnett has been extremely generous in giving me access to the papers of Duncan Grant and those papers of David Garnett in her keeping. I am grateful for her illuminating conversation, her kind hospitality and unceasing encouragement and enthusiasm.
    I am indebted to the late Angelica Garnett for allowing me to read her correspondence with David Garnett which is in the Archives of King’s College, Cambridge. This was particularly generous given that she would inevitably feature in my account of his life. I am grateful for her kindness in allowing me to interview her and for her hospitality.
    For granting interviews, allowing me to read letters in their possession (or both) I particularly thank Anne Olivier Bell,Frances Garnett, Michael Holroyd, Stephen Keynes, Virginia Nicholson, Joan O’Donovan, the late Magouche Fielding and the late Hilary Rubinstein.
    I am also grateful to the following for help in various ways: Elizabeth Belsey, Emily Bingham, Monika Buchell, Anne Chisholm, Jan Dalley, Phil Davies, Richard Denyer, Larry Edgerton, Claire Flay-Petty, Susan Fox, Edward Garnett, Oliver Garnett, Jonathan and Nicky Gathorne-Hardy, Janet Gill, Crauford and Nancy Goodwin, Olga Grlic, John Harriss, Diana Hopkins, Claire and Geoffrey Kiddy, Mr and Mrs J. Kirkwood, Nicola Lacey, Andrew Lambirth, Jawaid Luqmani, Catherine MacGowan, David Marshall, Marina Martin, Stephen Massil, David McKitterick, Neil McWilliam, J. Lawrence Mitchell, Judy Moore, Paul Morrison, Tom Morrison, Amanda O’Shea, Bill Rau, Anthony Rudolph, Elaine Shaughnessy, Ceinwen Sinclair, John Smart, Matthew Spender, Peter Stansky, Tilli Tansey, Ann Thwaite, the Lord Walpole, Norma Watt and Denis and Hazel Wilkinson. Thanks also to John Sutherland for responding so promptly to a last minute query.
    I have been greatly assisted by archivists and librarians, first among them, Patricia McGuire, the Archivist at King’s College Cambridge, who has been unstintingly kind and helpful during the years of my research. I also extend grateful thanks to the archivists and librarians of the following institutions: the HRHRC at Austin, Texas (Richard Workman, Jean Cannon and Kurt Johnson); the Berg Collection, New York Public Library (Isaac Gewirtz and Anne Garner); the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Colin Harris); the British Library Manuscript Rooms and Sound Archives; the University of Delaware (Iris Snyder); Imperial College Archives (Anne Barrett and Catherine Harpham); Princeton University Library (Margaret Sherry); Jean Rose ofRandom House Group for permission to consult publishing records at the University of Reading Library; the University of Reading Library; Smith College Archives; the University of Sussex Library (Dorothy Sheridan); Tate Gallery Archives; the University of East Anglia Special Collections Library (Bridget Gillies); Ulster Museum (Martyn Anglesea); Wellcome Library (Richard Aspin and Sharon Messenger; with particular thanks to Sir Mark Walport for facilitating access to as yet un-catalogued material there).
    Although I have been fortunate in the wealth and breadth of primary material, I am immensely grateful to those biographers and historians whose work I have consulted. In particular, Frances Spalding’s biographies of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant have been invaluable. Richard Garnett’s biography of his grandmother, Constance Garnett, saved me much time in researching David Garnett’s forebears. Edward Garnett’s