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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [31 December 1927]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, on New Year's Eve. She describes several domestic accidents of the previous night - Angelica's nosebleed, Grace Germany's hand injury while sawing wood; painting a portrait of Grant, while Quentin paints a still life; and looking at old photographs, including a 1902 portrait of her by George Charles Beresford. Also mentions Angelica Bell, Douglas Davidson, Louie Dunnet, Roger Fry, Peter Morris, Julia Stephen, and Virginia Woolf.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/151
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 20078/1/44/151
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