- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in Guildford]
- Date
- [22 April 1918]
- Description
- Addressed from Charleston, Firle [Sussex]. The letter provides an update from the Pelham Committee that he is not allowed to sign up as Bell's gardener. The letter also mentions a 'Sickertian'-style sketch he was working on of 'Cecil'.
- 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 8010/5/1153
