- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [16 April 1931]
- Description
- No address apart from 'in the train near Pisa'. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, London. The letter concerns a detailed update of his time in mainland Europe and general news. The reverse of the envelope is inscribed with two addresses 'semaine a Paris, 28 rue d'Assas, 6e' and 'Duthuit, rue Cezar [sic], Franck'.
- 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 8010/5/1544
