Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.1 May 1919]

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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.1 May 1919]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She reports a visit from Virginia Woolf, and the pregnancy of her servant Flossie Selwood by a married policeman. Also mentions her other servants Blanche Payne, Mrs Pitcher and Mabel Selwood; Elizabeth Asquith, Angelica Bell, T.S. Eliot, Roger Fry, Ethel Grant, Mary Hutchinson, and the Murrys (Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry).
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/91

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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 20078/1/44/91