KEYNES, John Maynard. (1883 - 1946). T.L.S. signed, to Sir Osbert Sitwell, Bloomsbury, 1943. 1pp., 14 lines, typed to a single leaf, with the printed address 46, Gordon Square, written to Sir Osbert Sitwell, Renishaw Hall, Renishaw, Nr. Sheffield, and dated July 30, 1943, 'My dear Osbert, Yes. I bought that book. The chief motive - because it was Large Paper, of which there are only a few copies recorded and I already had one of the second volume in Large Paper. But I have another copy not in Large Paper. So, if Edith has her heart set on it, I gladly give it her as a token of respect and admiration and will send it off when I am back next week. The Swinburne interest of it, in my opinion, is very mild, apart from the mere fact of his having been the possessor of the book. The binding has been mended not after my taste, and the first few pages not perfectly clean. 'Thus if' (corrected in manuscript), 'you open the book in the middle the great page is very magnificent, Yours ever', signed in manuscript, 'Maynard Keynes'. John Maynard Keynes was an influential British economist and the chief British representative at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference that established the International Monetary Fund. He was a major supporter of the arts in England and a member of the culturally influential 'Bloomsbury Set,' a loose collective of writers, intellectuals, philosophers, and artists.Provenance: The Sitwell Family Library, Weston Hall.