Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.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: [c.1916]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant. Bell worries about Grant's health and the move to Charleston; she discusses conscientious objectors Adrian Stephen, Gerald Shove and his fiancée Fredegond Maitland working as farm labourers in Cheltenham, and a trip to the cinema with her children. Letter also mentions Clive Bell, Herbert Duckworth, David 'Bunny' Garnett, Faith Henderson, Mary Hutchinson, John Maynard Keynes, Karin Stephen, John Tresidder Sheppard, and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/52

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Archive context

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 20078/1/44/52