Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.17 February 1914]

Duncan Grant, ‘Page 1’ [c.17 February 1914] — © 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.17 February 1914]
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/19

Description

Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant, Paris, where he is working on Jacques Copeau's staging of a version of 'Twelfth Night' at his Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. Bell looks forward to painting pots with him for Omega Workshops, mentions Roger Fry's research trip to the Staffordshire potteries the following day, humorously fantasises about eloping to Tunis with Grant, and admits that low finances will curtail the Bells' travels this year. Also mentions Molly MacCarthy and her Novel Club, Margery Snowden, and Lytton Strachey.

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Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)

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