We see Frances Partridge died, deemed The Last Survivor of the Bloomsbury Group. We had never heard of her and assume she was a deuxieme tier.

Privileged bohemes with small inherited incomes; today their counterparts would be taking drugs and making independent movies. We recently visited Davis & Langdale gallery in the East 60s for an exhibition of some objects created by this group and was amazed at how amateur and poor their quality. Even one's old professor Quentin Bell had a few curious looking ceramics.

When we showed some photographs of two Roger Fry paintings (given to us by his daughter Pamela Diamand) to the gormless gallery attendant she yawned and ordered lunch. Poor Bloomsbury, always in the shade, perhaps rightly so , though the feminists discovered Wolff and Ismael Merchant, Forster.