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Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[17 October 1916]

© 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: [17 October 1916]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant, Charleston. Written after a visit to Grant in Wissett. Along with other gossip, implies that Virginia Woolf's invitation to Dora Carrington to dinner is to find out about Bell's relationship with Grant and David 'Bunny' Garnett. Others mentioned include Clive, Julian and Quentin Bell, John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Barbara Hiles, Faith and Hubert Douglas Henderson, John Tresidder Sheppard, Mabel Selwood and her partner Dick, and Florrie.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/49

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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)
  - - Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/49