Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[29 February 1916]

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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 February 1916]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant. She discusses her work on decorations, the upcoming military tribunals of Bunny Garnett, Grant and an 'unfortunate youth', and Mary Hutchinson's report of Lytton Strachey's proposed new book, perhaps 'Eminent Victorians' (1918). Also mentions Clive Bell and the National Council Against Conscription, Roger Fry, Constance Garnett, Nina Hamnett and Roald Kristian (the 'de Bergens'), Ottoline Morrell, Sydney Olivier, Dora Sanger, and Oliver Strachey.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/44

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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 20078/1/44/44