Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[22 April 1923]

Duncan Grant, ‘Page 1’ [22 April 1923] — © The estate of Vanessa Bell courtesy of Henrietta Garnett

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [22 April 1923]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She is postponing her trip to France and coming up to London instead. Also mentions Angelica, Clive, Julian and Quentin Bell, Dora Harland, 'Pike', and Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/113

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Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)

Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)

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