- Title
- Letter from Duncan [Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 22 January 1938
- Description
- Addressed from Hotel Welcome [Villefranche, France] but on notepaper for Cafe-Restaurant de la Regence, 8 Avenue de la Victorie, Nice. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 8 Fitzroy Street, London. The letter provides an update of his time in France with 'the Bussys' [Simon and Dorothy]. 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 8010/5/1768
