Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[1 May 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: [1 May 1923]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, about her forthcoming visit to London. She discusses her reluctance to sublet Charleston to a tenant farmer Hugh, and the purchase of 'Interior with a table' (1921; N05078] by Frank Hindley Smith. Also mentions Mr Stacey, Mrs Uppington, and her onetime friend Madge Vaughan's daughter Janet.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/119

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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 20078/1/44/119