Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.6 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.6 August 1935]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Firle, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. Describes a 'sham air raid' in Lewes. Also mentions Angelica, Clive, and Julian Bell, Quentin Bell and his sculpture 'The Spink', John Maynard Keynes, Ernest Leach, the Lintotts, Lydia Lopokova and her staging of Ibsen's 'The master builder' at Cambridge Arts Theatre, Tom (?T.S. Eliot), and Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/202

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