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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [30 September 1917]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, London, anxious for his safety during the German air raids; she can hear the aircraft passing over the English coast. She describes intellectually demanding visitors to Charleston, where she is staying with Roger Fry, such as Barbara Hiles, Harry Norton and Virginia Woolf. Also mentions Mabel Selwood and Tisdall the dentist.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/68
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 20078/1/44/68
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