Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[15 February 1930]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [15 February 1930]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia, London, to Duncan Grant, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex. Discusses Angelica's accident at school, Virginia Woolf's 'preface', perhaps for Bell's London Artists Association exhibition, the letting of Clive Bell's flat, a request for an article about 'modern decoration' from 'Architectural review', and a talk about art with Roger Fry. Also mentions Julian and Quentin Bell, Elizabeth Curtis, André Derain, H. de C. Hastings, Henri Matisse, Edward Sackville-West, Marjorie Strachey, Tisdall the dentist, and Wyndham (?Lewis).
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/167

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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 20078/1/44/167