- Title
- Letter from D.[Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 8 January 1927
- Description
- Addressed from Brasserie-Restaurant Bristol-Univers, 21-23 Rue Cannebière, Marseille. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 37 Gordon Square, London. The letter provides an update upon his arrival to Marseilles in France; the letter mentions he dined with 'Luce [and] Julian' and 'saw [André] Derain for a few moments'. 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 8010/5/1400
