- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [25 May 1924]
- Description
- No address but possibly sent from Paris. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, London. The letter concerns an update that he has arrived in Paris and that he dined with [John] Maynard [Keynes] and Lydia [Lopokova]. 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 8010/5/1322
