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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [13 June 1923]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/122
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant, Paris. She describes visits from or to Clive Bell, Angus Davidson, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, Matthew Smith, Adrian and Karin Stephen, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia Woolf, and reports on the illnesses of various friends and family members - Angelica Bell, Barbara Hiles, and Jane and Ralph Strachey. Also mentions Nellie Brittain, Dorothy Bussy, Douglas Davidson, Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, John Middleton Murry (who has recently founded his journal 'The Adelphi'), Ralph's wife Margaret, Pippa Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, and the dentist Tisdall.
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 20078/1/44/122