- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [5 January 1932]
- Description
- Addressed from Royal Albion Hotel, Brighton. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The letter concerns an update of his time in Brighton and mentions 'Mrs Langford' [portrait] has sold; the letter also refers to Lytton [Strachey], Quentin [Bell], Julian [Bell], 'Bunny' [David Garnett] and 'the Playfair family'. 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 8010/5/1555
