Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.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: [c.1923]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Hôtel de Londres, Paris, to Duncan Grant. She describes her journey from Spain, where she was travelling with Grant, and her activities in Paris - meeting Roderic O'Conor, visiting an exhibition of Belgian art, shopping and dining. Homesick for her family, she has decided to return to London the following day. Also mentions Angelica and Clive Bell, Mary Hutchinson and the Belgian painter Alfred Stevens.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/125

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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 20078/1/44/125