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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.1923]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/124
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant. She describes her meeting with Simon Bussy to discuss his 'Nation and Athenaeum' review of Grant's Independent Gallery exhibition; her self-doubting attempts to paint; her difficulties finding a nanny for Angelica; her list of future visitors; and her purchase of tickets to see Eleanora Duse play Ibsen in London. Also mentions the Cambridge Apostles, Angelica, Clive and Julian Bell, Dorothy Bussy, Angus Davidson, Roger Fry, Marcel Gimond, Florence Grenfell, Lydia Lopokova, Albert Marquet, Henri Matisse, Harry Norton, Frank P. Ramsey, Adrian Stephen, Marjorie Strachey, and Virginia Woolf.
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 20078/1/44/124
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