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, relating to activities of Clive Bell and the National Council Against Conscription in response to the Military Service Bill (passed into law on 27 January 1916). Also mentions Lord Chancellor Stanley Buckmaster, David 'Bunny' Garnett, Jack and Mary Hutchinson, John Maynard Keynes, Ottoline Morrell, Charles and Dora Sanger, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Original letter enclosed a telegram from Clive Bell to Grant.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/58

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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 20078/1/44/58