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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [5 May 1919]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She writes about her servants and children (in particular Angelica and her nurse Nellie Brittain), and her return to painting, and asks Grant to invite painter Teddy Wolfe to Charleston. She hopes to attend two forthcoming Ballets Russes shows in London, with designs by André Derain and Pablo Picasso. Also mentions Clive, Julian and Quentin Bell, Mrs Brereton ('La B.'), Roger Fry, Mary Hutchinson, Blanche Payne, Mrs Pitcher, Jenny Pratt, and Mabel Selwood.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/92
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 20078/1/44/92
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