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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [27 April 1923]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, originally enclosing a drawing by Angelica Bell. She describes her return from London, her admiration for her son Julian, her painting a still life, and her 'lazy' lifestyle. She speculates about Grant's love life, and wonders whether John Maynard Keynes is going to buy their houses in Fitzroy Square, London. Also mentions Quentin Bell, Frank Dobson, Roger Fry, Grace Germany, and Alfred Tennyson.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/115
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 20078/1/44/115
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