- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 20 December 1924
- Description
- Addressed from Cafe de L'Ecu, Sens. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, London. The letter concerns an update from Sens in France with his aunt Daisy who is ill, where he was supposed to embark on a sailing holiday with family. 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 8010/5/1337
