Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.1915]

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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.1915]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant. She reports the failure of their play-reading group's staging of Racine's 'Bérénice' with puppets by Grant, and her meeting with Bunny Garnett gossiping about Ottoline Morrell. She makes arrangements for their stay in Eleanor House, where Henry Tonks has a studio nearby. Also mentions Roger Fry, Roald Kristian, Polly, and Adrian Stephen.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/29

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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)

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