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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- 25 December 1915
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Garsington Manor, Oxford, to Duncan Grant. The Bells are spending Christmas with Ottoline Morrell; the letter is written over Christmas Day and Boxing Day. She discusses the guests, the sleeping arrangements, the gift-giving, and a dance, but will reserve the gossip until she meets Grant. Also mentions Bunny Garnett, Maria Nys, John Maynard Keynes, John Middleton Murry, and Lytton Strachey.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/37
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 20078/1/44/37
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