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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- 8 August 1912
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/10
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, Ford Place, Arundel, West Sussex, to Duncan Grant. Vanessa and Clive are staying with Oliver and Ray Strachey, the latest in a series of visits that included Ethel Sands and Nan Hudson, and her in-laws at Seend, Wiltshire. She invites Grant to accompany them to Cologne, asks him for information about 'Cookham' (Stanley Spencer), whose work Roger Fry wants to include in his 'Second Post-Impressionist exhibition', and discusses Virginia's upcoming wedding to Leonard Woolf. Also mentions Ka Cox, A.V. Dicey, John Maynard Keynes, Desmond MacCarthy, Dora Sanger, Barbara, Jane and Marjorie Strachey, Queen Victoria, and Hilton Young. Envelope illustrated by plan and simplified drawing of country house (presumably by Grant).
Archive context
- Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
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- Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
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- Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
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- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/10