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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.1928]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Lewes, Sussex, to Duncan Grant, Hilton, Huntingdonshire, originally enclosing a photograph of Angelica Bell, 'The Russian princess as a child' (1928), and a Sherlock Holmes book by Arthur Conan Doyle. She discusses the departure of Angelica's nurse Louie Dunnet; and her house-hunting for Bunny Garnett, with whom Grant is staying, with the help of Nan Hudson and Jacques-Émile Blanche. Also mentions Roger Fry, Grace Germany, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/152
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 20078/1/44/152
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