- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [29 September 1923]
- Description
- Addressed from Charleston [Sussex] but written on 46 Gordon Square notepaper, addressed to Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, London. The letter concerns general news and mentions meeting [Walter] Sickert and Thérèse [Lessore]. The letter also mentions 'the Keynes' [John Maynard and Lydia Lopokova] and Clive [Bell] and Angelica [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 8010/5/1292
