Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.1925]

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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.1925]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She sets him various errands : to find a mislaid table; to telephone the Legal Aid Society about a dispute with Darracott Seymour; to organise the visits of Stephen Tomlin and Edward Wolfe to Charleston; and to return her key. Bell describes her children sunbathing, and her use of the palette knife in painting. Also mentions Grace Germany, Barbara Hiles and her baby Timothy Bagenal, and J. Bryce Smith Ltd.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/128

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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 20078/1/44/128