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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.1916]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant, announcing the lease of Charleston, East Sussex, from Mr Stacey. Letter contains a long verbal description and two-page 'map' of the farmhouse and grounds. Bell describes lunch with landlord's family, and deplores wartime jingoism of Mrs Stacey. Letter also mentions Cutts, a Romany cart driver; Roger Fry; Ethel Grant; John Maynard Keynes; Lytton Strachey; and John Tressider Sheppard.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/53
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 20078/1/44/53
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