Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.27 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.27 December 1925]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She is mentally exhausted by Virginia's 'brilliant' talk, displayed during a visit by Vita Sackville-West, and is working on carpet designs. She confirms the arrival of Grant's Christmas cards for Virginia and Roger Fry, and plans to take the children to their paternal grandparents at Seend then London before the school term starts. Also mentions Jane Austen, Angelica and Clive Bell, Bunny Garnett, Edward Sackville-West, Stephen Tomlin, Edward Wadsworth, and Leonard Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/134

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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 20078/1/44/134