Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[31 July 1934]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [31 July 1934]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia, London, to Duncan Grant. Mentions Anastasia ('Ba') and Helen Anrep, Angelica and Julian Bell, Frankie Birrell (ill in a nursing home), Lady Bowen, Angus Davidson and Coolings Galleries, Louie Dunnet, Joan and Margery Fry, Julian Fry's family, Grace Germany, Ethel Grant, John Lehmann (who praised Grant's portrait of 'Mrs H'), Phyllis Keyes, the cat Marco Polo, Eleanor Marshall, Peter Morris, Raymond Mortimer, Harry Norton, and Mrs Stevens.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/194

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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 20078/1/44/194