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Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[22 September 1918]

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Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient
Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Date
[22 September 1918]
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Created by
Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient
Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title
Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date
[22 September 1918]
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference
TGA 20078/1/44/75

Description

Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. Bell is pregnant with their child Angelica; she is cleaning up Charleston where Clive Bell and Mary Hutchinson are conducting their affair, and reading Molly MacCarthy's new novel, 'A pier and a band' (1918). She encloses a list of expenses for their work on the designs for Jacques Copeau's production of Maeterlinck's 'Pelléas et Mélisande'. Also mentions her servants Emily and Jenny Pratt and Trissie Selwood, the Ballets Russes, Barbara Hiles, Lytton Strachey, and Leonard and Virginia Woolf

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  • 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 20078/1/44/75
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