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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [December 1914]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/27
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, Durbins, Guildford, Surrey, to Duncan Grant. She is spending a 'ghastly' Christmas with her family at Roger Fry's 'gloomy' house, where it rains, Fry's daughter Pamela is ill, Clive criticises her clothes, adolescent Julian gets in the way, and family life in general impedes creativity. Bell is painting 'Woman and baby', Fry a still life. She discusses the possibility of their group staging Racine's 'Bérénice' and Shakespeare's 'Titus Andronicus', and will reserve her gossip about Oliver Strachey and Polly until she meets Grant. Also mentions Hannah Bell, Frankie Birrell, Joan Fry, Bunny Garnett, Noël Olivier, James, Lytton and Marjorie Strachey, and Virginia Woolf.
Archive context
- Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
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- Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
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- Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
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- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/27