- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- 23 June [1946]
- Description
- Addressed from Hotel Cecil, Copenhagen. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Sussex, England. The letter provides an update of his time in Copenhagen and mentions he went to a Van Gogh exhibition. The letter also mentions seeing 'Miss Todd', his mother and aunt Daisy. The reverse of the envelope is inscribed 'I've just upset the ink over a spotless chair, but it might have been worse. DG'. 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 8010/5/1826
