- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London]
- Date
- [c.10 July 1917]
- Description
- Addressed from Charleston [Sussex]. The letter concerns general news and mentions Roger [Fry] and [John] Maynard [Keynes]. The letter also discusses that Lady Howard de Walden wanted to buy one of Grant's still lifes.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Purchased at Sotheby's Sale, 21st -22nd July 1980 [Lot numbers 201,204,208,211,223,224,227,228,229,233,239,245,250,261,262,266]. The letters were gathered from different rooms at Charleston Farmhouse (including the attics), by Quentin Bell, son of Vanessa and Clive Bell. They were lodged in the Library of King's College, Cambridge and then transferred to Sotheby 's in 1980 for the auction.
- Reference
- TGA 8010/5/1145