- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 29 July 1932
- Description
- Addressed from Globe Hotel, King's Lynn [Norfolk]. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. The letter concerns an update of his time in King's Lynn [with George Bergen] and mentions he has been able to paint as the weather has improved. The letter also mentions 'Bunny' [David Garnett] and that Bell is painting Roger [Fry]. 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 8010/5/1570
