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. She discusses life at Charleston : the unhappiness of the servants being in the country, in particular Angelica's nurse Nellie Brittain; gardening and pets; and generally feeling cooped up after her pregnancy. Also mentions the gardener Pitcher, the servants Jenny Pratt and Mabel Selwood, St John Hutchinson, Gerald and Fredegond Shove, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and thanks Grant for the gift of a drawing.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/79

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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 20078/1/44/79