Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[5 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: [5 May 1919]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She writes about her servants and children (in particular Angelica and her nurse Nellie Brittain), and her return to painting, and asks Grant to invite painter Teddy Wolfe to Charleston. She hopes to attend two forthcoming Ballets Russes shows in London, with designs by André Derain and Pablo Picasso. Also mentions Clive, Julian and Quentin Bell, Mrs Brereton ('La B.'), Roger Fry, Mary Hutchinson, Blanche Payne, Mrs Pitcher, Jenny Pratt, and Mabel Selwood.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/92

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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 20078/1/44/92