- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 1 February 1930
- Description
- Addressed from Charleston [Sussex] written on 37 Gordon Square notepaper. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, London. The letter concerns news from Charleston with George [Bergen] and compares the house to Wuthering Heights. The letter also discusses Grant's feeling for George [Bergen] stating 'I think a great part of my feeling for him is paternal' and a still life Grant has started to paint of 'a lamp against the screen [Bell] painted.' 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 8010/5/1474
