- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [20 April 1923]
- Description
- Possibly sent from London written on The Mill House, Tidmarsh, Pangbourne notepaper. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Monk's House, Rodmell near Lewes, Sussex. The letter concerns general news including dining with 'Tommy' [possibly Stephen Tomlin] where he saw [Walter] Sickert and Thérèse [Lessore]. The reverse of the envelope is inscribed 'I had meant to send this by Clive but he's just gone. D.G.'
- 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 8010/5/1274
