Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.1916]

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Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient
Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Date
[c.1916]
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Duncan Grant, ‘Page 1’ [c.1916]

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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.1916]
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference
TGA 20078/1/44/56

Description

Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant, Wissett, Suffolk. The letter centres on talk at a dinner party about conscientious objectors, conscription, and the new Committee on Work of National Importance (Pelham Committee), with particular reference to the government's attempts to compromise with Clifford Allen and his No-Conscription Fellowship. At the same party - hosted by Charles and Dora Sanger - Bell meets writer Saki (Hector Hugh Munro), recently returned from the Western Front. Also mentioned are Tate director Charles Aitken, Lady Cunard, Roger Fry, Constance and David 'Bunny' Garnett, David Lloyd George, Mary Hutchinson, Bell's maid Jessie, James and Oliver Strachey, Will and Alice, and R.C. Trevelyan.

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