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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.1927]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/148
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, 37 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant. She describes her journey from Paris - including a mishap on the train, spilling mineral water over American tourists - and the household difficulties she returned to, such as rats and Grace Germany's foot abscess. She relays Virginia Woolf's gossip about Ethel Sands, and recounts meeting Matthew Smith in Fitzroy Street where he may lease a studio. Also mentions Judith Bagenal, Angelica and Quentin Bell, Mrs Benjamin, Sibyl Colefax, Angus Davidson, Louie Dunnet, Mrs Fagence, Helmsley, Hogben, Nan Hudson, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, Mrs Langsford, the Raverat family, the governesses Miss Paul (?Rose Paul)and Miss Strachey, Sophie, Adrian and Karin Stephen, 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 20078/1/44/148