- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [4 January 1927]
- Description
- No address but possibly sent from Twickenham or London. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The letter is in reply to Bell's 'depressed' letter; the letter also refers to attempts to contact 'Mayor' about including Roger [Fry's] work in an exhibition, possibly at the Lefevre Gallery in London.
- 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 8010/5/1395
