Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[30 April 1923]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [30 April 1923]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. The letter mostly concerns Clive Bell : his plans to establish a theatre of drama and ballet with Jeanne de Casalis, Dorothy Warren and Raymond Mortimer; his praise of her portrait of Lydia Lopokova at the London Group Spring exhibition; and his new pamphlet, 'On British freedom' (1923). Also mentions Quentin Bell, Mary and Jack Hutchinson, John Maynard Keynes, Theodore Komisarjevsky, Adrian and Karin Stephen, and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/118

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Archive context

Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
- Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
- - Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
  - - Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/118