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Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.27 September 1911]

© 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.27 September 1911]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Harbour View, Studland, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, to Duncan Grant, thanking him for wool he sent, inviting him to dine on the Bells' return to London, and outlining uncertain plans to visit France the following month. She records visits from Virginia Woolf as well as Lytton Strachey, whose portrait she and Roger Fry both painted. Also mentions Henry Lamb, Gwen and Jacques Raverat, and Adrian Stephen.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/5

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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 20078/1/44/5