Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.20 December 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.20 December 1925]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She describes the family's misadventures on the train home - including Angela getting sick - and the state of the house and garden. Roger Fry has invited himself to stay; Bell speculates about his relationship with Helen Anrep. Also mentions Boris Anrep, Bicknell, Louie Dunnet, Mrs Standen, Stevens, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/130

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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 20078/1/44/130