- Title
- Postcard from D.G. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 2 January 1925
- Description
- Addressed from Beaume. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The postcard concerns a brief update from Beaume while on a family sailing holiday; the postcard also mentions an attempt to meet with 'Copeau' [possibly Jacques Copeau]. The postcard features a reproduction of the lane of the chapter-house at Beaume.
- 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 8010/5/1346
