- Title
- Letter from B. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [Charleston]
- Date
- [10 April 1919]
- Description
- Addressed from 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury. The letter concerns general news; the letter also mentions Harry [Norton?], Alix [Strachey], James [Strachey?], Virginia [Woolf] and Angelica [Bell]. The letter also briefly discusses a dinner party held by 'Mary' with guests including Roger [Fry], Viola Tree, 'La Sitwell' and others.
- 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 8010/5/1177