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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.1918]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Durbins, Guildford, Surrey, to Duncan Grant. She has been nursing her sick children, and gives a satirical account of meeting a former servant. She pleads with Grant to keep her letters private. Also mentions Joan Fry's servant Jenny (Jenny Pratt?), Bell's servants Anne and Mrs Brereton and Trissie Selwood, Roger Fry's son Julian, and Lord Gage.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/84
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 20078/1/44/84
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