- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [24 August 1923]
- Description
- Addressed from 46 [Gordon Square, London]. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The letter discusses an evening with Horace de Vere Cole and as a result slept in for a sitting with 'Mina' [Mina Kirstein (later Curtiss)]. The letter also mentions an unidentified still life by Vanessa Bell. 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 8010/5/1288
