- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [21 October 1927]
- Description
- Addressed from Cassis, B. du Rhone [Bouches-du-Rhône]. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 37 Gordon Square, London. The letter concerns an update of his short trip to Marseilles in France; the letter also concerns furniture for Bell's new house. The letter is illustrated with a small sketch of part of a face which has then been crossed out. 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 8010/5/1420