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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.20 December 1925]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She describes the family's misadventures on the train home - including Angela getting sick - and the state of the house and garden. Roger Fry has invited himself to stay; Bell speculates about his relationship with Helen Anrep. Also mentions Boris Anrep, Bicknell, Louie Dunnet, Mrs Standen, Stevens, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/130
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 20078/1/44/130
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