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Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[8 October 1923]

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Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient
Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Date
[8 October 1923]
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Created by
Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient
Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title
Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date
[8 October 1923]
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference
TGA 20078/1/44/126

Description

Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant, written over two days. On Monday she describes luncheon with the 'chilly' couple of John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, and dining with Clive and Quentin Bell, soon joined by Adrian Stephen and Bunny Garnett. They discuss 'The Nation and Athenaeum', soon to be acquired by a group chaired by Keynes. On Tuesday, Angelica's new nurse Louie Dunnet arrives, cook Grace Germany is excited by her new bedroom, and Bell admires Pippa Strachey's screen. Also mentions Sigmund Freud, Tom Ford, Dora Harland, Henry the dog, Mr Stevens, Mrs Uppington, and Virginia Woolf.

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  • 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 20078/1/44/126
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