- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [22 January 1922]
- Description
- Addressed from Hotel de Londres [Paris]. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, London. The letter concerns general news including an unidentified female Irish painter, an offer of a room to Bell and the love life of 'Seabroke'. The letter also mentions [John] Maynard [Keynes] and Adrian and Karin [Stephen]. 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 8010/5/1250
