Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.May 1940]

Duncan Grant, ‘Page 1’ [c.1940] — © The estate of Vanessa Bell courtesy of Henrietta Garnett

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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.May 1940]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex to Duncan Grant, Plymouth, Devon, discussing the home front around the time of the Fall of France. Mentions Keith Baynes, Angelica, Clive and Quentin Bell, Captain Cecil, Maurice Gamelin, Grace Germany and her son John Higgens, Graham and Kathleen Sutherland, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/213

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