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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [6 May 1915]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/33
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant. She gives an anti-Semitic description of a visit to their clients the Meinhertzhagens of Campden Hill, and reports extensively on a reception hosted by Gerald Shove and his fiancée Fredegond Maitland, where there was speculation about her ménage à trois with Grant and Bunny Garnett. She has been visiting doctors with Leonard Woolf for Virginia, while another acquaintance Daphne Olivier has also had a severe breakdown. She discusses Omega Workshops and a sitting with milliner Kate Lechmere. Also mentions Nick Bagenal and Barbara Hiles, Clive Bell and Mary Hutchinson, Drs Maurice Craig and Ian Mackenzie, Harry Norton, Bryn Olivier, and James and Lytton Strachey.
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 20078/1/44/33