The Honorable Stephen James Napier Tennant (1906-1987) was an English artist and author. He was part of a London social circle popularly known in the 1920s as the Bright Young Things or Bright Young People, and he had many friends and acquaintances in the Bloomsbury set as well.
Poems, letters and drawings sent to Vita Sackville-West. In the letters, Tennant thanks her for her friendship and appreciation of his work. Healso discusses gardening. Includes one photograph of Tennant inscribed to Vita. Includes photocopied information about Stephen Tennant collected by Archives staff.
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Stephen Tennant Papers, 1945-1953 (Cage 4772)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Purchased, in 1089 October, from David J. Holmes, Autographs, 230 S. Broad Street 3rd floor, Philadelphia, PA 19102.
Stephen Tennant Papers, 1929-1977
Thomas Balston Papers of the Sitwells, 1924-1960
Siegfried Sassoon Papers of the Sitwells, 1918-1957
Nina Hamnett Papers, 1914-1953
Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell Papers, 1917-1972
Ada Leverson Letters from the Sitwells, circa 1920-1935
Edith Sitwell Correspondence, 1922-1964
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