An Original Handwritten and Signed Two-Sided Letter and Three Pages of Manuscript from Needlework Writer and Expert Marion Stoll to Ottoline Morrell. Dated 1932 from Paris a long personal letter to Ottoline Morrell and enclosing 3 pages of her memories of her impressions of Garsington and her time spent there. Marion Stoll (1879- 1960) Marian Stoll was born and educated in America. American newspapers report Marian Stoll as the first woman to climb Mount Winkelturm in the Austrian Tyrol. She studied Applied and Industrial Art in Munich and Vienna. During the First World War she worked with the Red-Cross Agence International des Prisonniers de Guerre in France. She moved to Europe and played an active part in the artistic communities of Germany and Austria, before settling for some years in Oxford. She arrived in Oxford in the 1920’s where she remained until 1928. Of great assistance to her at this time was Lady Ottoline Morrell, a well-known patron of the arts with whom Stoll became friends. Lady Morrell lived in Bloomsbury and kept a country home in Garsington, near Oxford, in which she entertained artists, writers, and philosophers. Through her relationship with Morrell and regular visits to the Garsington house, Stoll made acquaintances with several literary and artistic elites. Her list of private clients steadily expanded to include luminaries like Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, John Masefield. Lytton Strachey, Lady Gwendolen Churchill, Bertrand Russell, and Alexander Woollcott. By the late 1920s, Stoll had gained further success, exhibiting in Paris, New York, Chicago and Brussels as her art grew in popularity.After a visit in June 1923, Virginia Woolf derided Morrell’s kindness in hosting a ‘shabby embroideress’ as a typically Ottoline ‘horror’ (she was in fact referring to Stoll, maker of the luminous embroidery displayed here). Still was infact a remarkable woman who straddled both the Bloomsbury group in Uk and the Algonquin group in New York. She sold her embroideries for £400 in 1930s. It was during her time in England—and thanks to Morrell—that Stoll met Elizabeth "Bessie" Morison (1886-1945), wife of historian Samuel Eliot Morison, then a professor of American History at Oxford. Stoll and the Morisons developed a close relationship, detailed in this collection, that would last for many years. . In 1931 she returned to the USA. In 1940 her work was published in Time magazine. Marion Stoll’s clients included: Siegfried Sassoon, Aldous Huxley, John Masefield. Lytton Strachey, Ottoline Morrel, Lady Gwendolen Churchill, Lady Asquith, Lord Henry Bentick and The Duke of Portland. She exhibited at: Walker Gallery, London in 1923. Oxford Arts Club, Oxford, November – December 1925. Victoria and Albert Museum. 1932. She moved to Paris and lived in Greece in the early 30’s and returned to America in 1935 where she remained until her death in 1961. Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell 1873 – 1938 was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in artistic and intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and Gilbert Spencer. Size is 270mm x 210mm. Condition is good. Folding creases and light rubbing.