Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[5 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: [5 August 1938]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. Discusses her health and feelings since Julian's death, and the posthumous volume of his 'Essays, poems and letters' (1938), edited by Quentin, criticising the editorial interference of John Lehmann, Leonard Woolf's new partner at the Hogarth Press. Also mentions Helen Anrep and Roger Fry, Angelica and Clive Bell, Edward Playfair, and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/206

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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 20078/1/44/206