Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.1915]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [c.1915]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant, sent via her children. She asks his advice about requests from a Mrs [Marcus], has been chided by Virginia Woolf for using too much coal at Asheham House, and has gossip for Grant the next time they meet. Also mentions Roger Fry, Bunny Garnett, Ottoline Morrell and Bertrand Russell.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/31

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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 20078/1/44/31