Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

25 December 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: 25 December 1915
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Garsington Manor, Oxford, to Duncan Grant. The Bells are spending Christmas with Ottoline Morrell; the letter is written over Christmas Day and Boxing Day. She discusses the guests, the sleeping arrangements, the gift-giving, and a dance, but will reserve the gossip until she meets Grant. Also mentions Bunny Garnett, Maria Nys, John Maynard Keynes, John Middleton Murry, and Lytton Strachey.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/37

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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 20078/1/44/37