- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [c.11 July 1919]
- Description
- Addressed from Wilmington House near Dartford, Kent. The letter discusses playing badminton with his family, a 'commonplace view of the garden' he is currently painting and a trip to the circus.
- 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 8010/5/1194
