Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.9 January 1934]

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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.9 January 1934]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Lewes, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. Mentions Judith Bagenal, Angelica and Julian Bell, Dorothy Edwards' suicide, Roger Fry, Henrik Ibsen's 'A doll's house', John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova, Virginia Woolf and the funeral of Leonard's sister.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/192

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