Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[29 May 1940]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [29 May 1940]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex to Duncan Grant, Plymouth, Devon, where he is working as a war artist. Mentions Mary Baker, Keith Baynes, Angelica, Clive and Quentin Bell, Louie Dunnet, Walter Higgens ('the D.' for 'Dolt'), Barbara Hiles and Nick Bagenal, Desmond MacCarthy and G.E. Moore ('the Moor'), and Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/214

London Group Post-Impressionism British War Art Bloomsbury Group

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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 20078/1/44/214