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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [11 July 1917]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Durbins, Guildford, Surrey, to Duncan Grant, written over two days during a stay with Roger Fry, where they talked, gardened and painted still lifes of a Madonna lily. She encourages Grant to visit potential patron Lady Howard de Walden (Margarita van Raalte). Also mentions Goldie Dickinson, George Duckworth, Joan Fry, Barbara Hiles, Harry Norton, and Vanessa's cook Trissie Selwood.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/62
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 20078/1/44/62
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