- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [1 June 1935]
- Description
- Addressed from 8 Fitzroy Street. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 33 Via Margutta, Rome, Italy. The letter concerns general news and mentions he met with 'Mr Morris' and Kenneth Clark. The letter is illustrated with a sketch of the shape of the room which Bell was to decorate on the R.M.S Queen Mary. Includes original envelope and is enclosed with an undated letter from Phyllis [Keyes] addressed to Duncan Grant.
- 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 8010/5/1684
