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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [31 August 1938]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. Describes difficulty in finding new subject to paint in and around Charleston, though she praises the beauty of the landscape. Also mentions Angelica and Quentin Bell, Elizabeth Curtis, and James Strachey remembering his schooldays with Grant at St Paul's School.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/209
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 20078/1/44/209