- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [Charleston]
- Date
- [April 1934]
- Description
- Addressed from 8 Fitzroy Street. The letter concerns general news, attending 'Fidelio' opera and meeting 'Timmie', 'Tommy' [possibly Stephen Tomlin] and George [Bergen]. The letter also refers to receiving Bell's portrait of Grant's mother.
- 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 8010/5/1639
