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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [1 April 1942]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, written on 1 and 2 April. Discusses Quentin Bell's being offered jobs by Eddie Playfair at the Treasury and Bunny Garnett at the Foreign Office; the purchase of Bell's 'Snow at Tilton' (1941) by CEMA (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts); working on the Nativity for Berwick Church; and Frances Byng Stamper, Caroline Byng Lucas and Roger Fry's pictures. Also mentions Angelica and Clive Bell, and Grace Germany.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/220
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 20078/1/44/220