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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.31 December 1925]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, complaining of the wet and windy weather. She discusses sending a still life via Peck (to the 1926 International Exhibition at Dresden?) and their decorations for the Hutchinsons' Regent's Park house to the upcoming London Group exhibition, possibly for sale. Also mentions Angelica, Clive, Julian and Quentin Bell, Bicknell, the oculist Elliot, Roger Fry, Bunny Garnett, Ethel Grant, 'Hog', John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, and Mrs Uppington and her recently deceased mother.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/137
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 20078/1/44/137
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