Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.10 May 1912]

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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.10 May 1912]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Stella d'Italia, Bologna, Italy, to Duncan Grant. She is ill during her trip with Clive Bell and Roger Fry, and has been making 'paper-mosaic[s]'. She confides news about her sibling's relationships - Adrian and Noël Olivier, Virginia and Leonard Woolf - and discusses Grant's commission to design for Harley Granville-Barker's abortive production of 'Macbeth'. The letter is written in pencil, which has faded to illegibility in parts.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/8

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Archive context

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 20078/1/44/8