Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.1918]

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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.1918]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London. She is anxious for Grant's safety during a recent German air raid, and failed in her attempt to phone Fredegond Shove for news. Also mentions her servant Jessie, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Bunny Garnett, Barbara Hiles, and Saxon Sydney-Turner.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/78

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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 20078/1/44/78