Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.1926]

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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.1926]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She has begun a large painting of four nude females, describes Durrant the builder's attempt to find the source of a heating problem in the house, and mentions their forthcoming trip to Italy. Also mentions Angelica and Quentin Bell, Angus Davidson, Nigel Farnell, Roger Fry, Mary Hutchinson, Paul Hyslop, John Maynard Keynes, Dadie Rylands, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/139

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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 20078/1/44/139