- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [Seend, Wiltshire]
- Date
- [c.28 April 1924]
- Description
- Addressed from Charleston [Sussex] written on 46 Gordon Square notepaper. The letter concerns general news, discussing a still life he is working on and different techniques. The letter also refers to Roger [Fry's] 'tragedy' (the suicide of Fry's French mistress Josette Coatmellec).
- 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 8010/5/1318
