- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 6 June 1945
- Description
- Addressed from Hotel Cecil, Niels Hemmingsensgade 10, Kobenhavn [Copenhagen]. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Sussex, England. The letter provides an update of his time in Copenhagen with his mother and aunt Daisy; the letter also mentions he visited the National Gallery in Copenhagen and discusses the art he saw there. 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 8010/5/1815
