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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [11 October 1927]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/149
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, 37 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant. She describes her frustrations illustrating the special edition of Virginia Woolf's story 'Kew Gardens' (1919), and Angus Davidson's rows with Leonard Woolf at Hogarth Press; a trip to the dentist; acquiring books on Rodin and Oscar Browning; Adrian Stephen's success as a psychoanalyst; and the arrival of Alec, Bertha and Lionel Penrose as neighbours in 50 Gordon Square. She compares women waiting for the bus in Lewes to subjects by Velázquez. Also mentions John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, Anthony Ludovici, Raymond Mortimer, Karin Stephen, and Tisdall.
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 20078/1/44/149