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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.31 August 1935]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia, London, to Duncan Grant, Rome. Describes evening with Georges Duthuit, including discussion of his affair with Sacheverell Sitwell's wife Georgia. Discusses Grant's health, helping Julian prepare for his new post at Wuhan University, and her photographs of Angelica, who has been receiving the attentions of Nigel Henderson. Also mentions Helen Anrep, the 'Commendatore', Marguerite Duthuit (née Matisse), the Lefevre Gallery, the pseudonymous Louisa, Marco Polo the cat, Flossie Selwood, and Tisdall the dentist.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/204
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 20078/1/44/204
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