- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [2 February 1921]
- Description
- Addressed from Hotel de L'Elysee, Rue de Beaune, Paris written on 46 Gordon Square notepaper. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 50 Gordon Square, London. The letter describes his journey to Paris and an account of his time there. Includes original envelope.
- 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 8010/5/1225
