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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.23 December 1925]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/132
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She continues to describe her Christmas - the house and garden have problems; Roger Fry continues to fret about his ménage à trois with the Anreps; Virginia Woolf reads from a diary of 1906, when the sisters lived at 46 Gordon Square. Also mentions Angelica and Clive Bell, Albert, Anastasia and Igor Anrep, Lord and Lady Robert Cecil, Violet Dickinson, Gerald, George and Margaret Duckworth, Tom Ford, Margery Fry, Bunny Garnett, Ethel Grant, John and Frances Horner, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, Kitty Lushington, Alfred and Edith Balfour Lyttelton, Andrée McColl, Violet McNeil, Margery Snowdon, Stevens, Jane and Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Madge and Will Vaughan, Arthur West, and Leonard Woolf.
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 20078/1/44/132