Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[7 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: [7 August 1938]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, asking him to retrieve from their London studio some Wedgwood pottery for Quentin to work on. She has been correcting proofs of the posthumous volume of Julian Bell's works, including the errors introduced by publisher John Lehmann. Also mentions Walter Higgens ('the Dolt'), John Maynard Keynes, Peter (?Morris), Puss the cat, R.C. Trevelyan ('Bob Trevy'), and Leonard and Virginia Woolf, the latter working on her biography of Roger Fry.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/207

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Archive context

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 20078/1/44/207