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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [29 April 1926]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, who is in Paris en route to Venice. She describes refusing to accomodate the Woolfs and Barbara Hiles because of pressure of decorating the house, reports Roger Fry's acquisition of a house in Gower Street, and gives a pen-portrait of Angelica. Also mentions Nellie Boxall, Miss Chapman, Angus Davidson and the Hogarth Press, Margery Fry, John Maynard Keynes, the Pattle family, and Stephen Tomlin.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/144
Archive context
- Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
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- Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
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- Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
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- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/144