- Title
- Letter from Duncan [Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [December 1925]
- Description
- Addressed from Fitzroy Street, London. The letter concerns general news and mentions meeting [Frederick?] Porter and going to the Film Society with Angus [Davidson]. The letter also mentions that Grant has been 'doing watercolours at the studio and trying to finish [his] Christmas cards.' The letter includes an unfinished sketch, possibly by Grant, of a flower, a berry and a branch.
- 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 8010/5/1364
