Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.23 December 1925]

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Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient
Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Date
[c.23 December 1925]
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Duncan Grant, ‘Page 1’ [c.23 December 1925]

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Created by
Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient
Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title
Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date
[c.23 December 1925]
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference
TGA 20078/1/44/132

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Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She continues to describe her Christmas - the house and garden have problems; Roger Fry continues to fret about his ménage à trois with the Anreps; Virginia Woolf reads from a diary of 1906, when the sisters lived at 46 Gordon Square. Also mentions Angelica and Clive Bell, Albert, Anastasia and Igor Anrep, Lord and Lady Robert Cecil, Violet Dickinson, Gerald, George and Margaret Duckworth, Tom Ford, Margery Fry, Bunny Garnett, Ethel Grant, John and Frances Horner, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, Kitty Lushington, Alfred and Edith Balfour Lyttelton, Andrée McColl, Violet McNeil, Margery Snowdon, Stevens, Jane and Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Madge and Will Vaughan, Arthur West, and Leonard Woolf.

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