Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.3 August 1935]

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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.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

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