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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [22 September 1918]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/75
Description
Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. Bell is pregnant with their child Angelica; she is cleaning up Charleston where Clive Bell and Mary Hutchinson are conducting their affair, and reading Molly MacCarthy's new novel, 'A pier and a band' (1918). She encloses a list of expenses for their work on the designs for Jacques Copeau's production of Maeterlinck's 'Pelléas et Mélisande'. Also mentions her servants Emily and Jenny Pratt and Trissie Selwood, the Ballets Russes, Barbara Hiles, Lytton Strachey, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf
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 20078/1/44/75
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