- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 26 December 1923
- Description
- Addressed from Grosvenor House, Twickenham. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The letter concerns general news about Christmas and mentions a visit to see his family with Adrian [Stephen]. The letter also mentions [Walter] Sickert, Thérèse [Lessore], [John] Maynard [Keynes], Lydia [Lopokova], Angelica [Bell] and [Berta] Ruck. The envelope is sealed with red wax with the impression of a bird flying out of a cage; the seal is mentioned in the letter as Grant's mother gave it to him.
- 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 8010/5/1297
