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- 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
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 20078/1/44/213
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