- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [30 August 1938]
- Description
- Addressed from 8 Fitzroy Street. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Sussex. The letter concerns general news and mentions he is painting St Paul's [Cathedral]. The reverse of the envelope is inscribed 'Mrs Farr has scrubbed out both studios'.
- 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 8010/5/1778
