Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.1928]

Duncan Grant, ‘Page 1’ [c.1928] — © The estate of Vanessa Bell courtesy of Henrietta Garnett

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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.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

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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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