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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.3 August 1935]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. Mentions Angelica Bell, 'the Commendatore', the Embassy of China, Ernest Leach, Margery Fry, Marco Polo the cat and Mitzi (Virginia Woolf's marmoset), Stephen Tennant, and Leonard Woolf.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/200
Archive context
- 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 20078/1/44/200
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