- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 3 January 1925
- Description
- Addressed from Paris. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The letter concerns an update from Paris while on a sailing holiday with his family; the letter mentions he did not have enough money to travel to see 'Copeau' [possibly Jacques Copeau]. The letter also mentions seeing a 'magnificent [painting]' by [Rogier] van der Weyden in a chapel. 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 8010/5/1347
