- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [12 November 1930]
- Description
- Addressed from Cafe de France, Cassis [France]. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, London. The letter concerns an update of his time in France with 'the Gills' [possibly Eric and Mary] and mentions an incident where his car was damaged. 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 8010/5/1509
