Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[30 September 1917]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [30 September 1917]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, London, anxious for his safety during the German air raids; she can hear the aircraft passing over the English coast. She describes intellectually demanding visitors to Charleston, where she is staying with Roger Fry, such as Barbara Hiles, Harry Norton and Virginia Woolf. Also mentions Mabel Selwood and Tisdall the dentist.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/68

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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 20078/1/44/68