- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [Charleston]
- Date
- [12 January 1919]
- Description
- Addressed from Wilmington House near Dartford, Kent. The letter discusses taking the children to the Tower of London and having lunch with Roger [Fry] and seeing 'his finished [portraits] of Lalla [Vanderville] and Viola [Tree]'. The letter also mentions Roger [Fry] wants to buy 'Lady in her Tub', possibly referring to 'The Tub' 1917 by Vanessa Bell.
- 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 8010/5/1166
