Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[29 April 1922]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [29 April 1922]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, sending him on various errands, and informing him that cook Blanche Payne has left service at Charleston with her lover. Also mentions cook Dora Harland, John Maynard Keynes, and Desmond MacCarthy.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/109

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