Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[4 August 1938]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [4 August 1938]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, London. She discusses finding Angelica's birth certificate in Lewes; she is to perform with the London Village Players in a Sussex tour of 'Gammer Gurton's needle'. Also mentions Quentin Bell, Carlo Goldoni, Grant's large painting 'St Paul's Cathedral' (c. 1938-1939), Mary Kingsley and Virginia Woolf's 'Three guineas' (1938), and Puss the cat.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/205

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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 20078/1/44/205