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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.1917]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/71
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant. She is exhausted from the social 'whirlwind' of London, which includes gossiping with John Maynard Keynes and John Tresidder Sheppard; taking her son Julian to the doctor; buying Christmas presents and a blue carpet for Charleston; arranging a governess with Amber Blanco-White; and visiting Lala Vandervelde's flat with Roger Fry. Also mentions Dora Carrington, Dr Craig, Miss Elwes, David Lloyd George, Mark Gertler, Barbara Hiles, Adrian Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, George Rivers Blanco White, and Grant's parents and Aunt Violet.
Archive context
- Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
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- Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
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- Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
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- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/71