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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.1 May 1919]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She reports a visit from Virginia Woolf, and the pregnancy of her servant Flossie Selwood by a married policeman. Also mentions her other servants Blanche Payne, Mrs Pitcher and Mabel Selwood; Elizabeth Asquith, Angelica Bell, T.S. Eliot, Roger Fry, Ethel Grant, Mary Hutchinson, and the Murrys (Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry).
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/91
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 20078/1/44/91
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