Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[7 August 1930]

Duncan Grant, ‘Page 1’ [7 August 1930] — © 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: [7 August 1930]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She has been working on a dust jacket for Virginia Woolf. Also mentions Judith Bagenal, Angelica, Clive, Julian Bell and Quentin Bell, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, Helen Soutar, and Webb.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/178

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