- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [Charleston]
- Date
- [September 1918]
- Description
- Addressed from 46 Gordon Square [London] written on Kings College Cambridge notepaper. The letter mentions Gordon Square, [John] Maynard [Keynes], [Walter] Sickert, [Lady] Ottoline [Morrell], 'Bunny' [David Garnett] and [Leonard] Woolf. The letter also discuses art, ballet and 'Picasso's ballet'.
- 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 8010/5/1162
