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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.1923]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, worrying about the possibility of their losing Charleston. She complains about damp and the difficulty of painting at Monk's House, gossips about Virginia Woolf, and disputes Grant's negative evaluation of Roger Fry's latest self-portrait. Also mentions Lord and Lady Alington, Clive and Quentin Bell, Jane Ellen Harrison, Hope Mirrlees, Mr. Stacey, Mrs Uppington, and Hubert Waley.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/120
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 20078/1/44/120
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