Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.29 July 1930]

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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.29 July 1930]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia, London, to Duncan Grant, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex. Discusses their decorations for Dottie Wellesley. Mentions Mr Bailey, Angelica, Clive and Quentin Bell, Mr Crawford, Louie Dunnet, Fred, Dorelia McNeill, Naomi Mitchison, Adrian Stephen, Oscar Wilde's 'The importance of being Earnest', and Leonard and Virginia Woolf and their new cook (?Louie Mayer).
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/169

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Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/169

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