- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [3 January 1932]
- Description
- Addressed from The Royal Albion Hotel [Brighton] written on 8 Fitzroy Street notepaper. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The letter concerns an update of his trip to Brighton with George [Bergen] and mentions he sketched two boats on the beach that day. The letter also refers to Lytton [Strachey's] health. 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 8010/5/1554
