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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [29 September 1913]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Asheham House, Rodmell, Lewes, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She discusses Roger Fry and Omega Workshops, including designs and preparations for their stall at the forthcoming 'Ideal homes exhibition'. Ka Cox visited Bell, posed for nude photographs (the letter includes a cartoon-like sketch of Cox lying nude), and reported on Virginia Woolf after her recent suicide attempt. Also mentions Adrian Stephen and Leonard Woolf.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/15
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 20078/1/44/15