- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London?]
- Date
- October 1916
- Description
- Addressed from Charleston [Sussex]. The letter discusses lamp fittings for Charleston and mentions he may be exempt from war service to work on the land. The letter also refers to 'Bunny' [David Garnett].
- 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 8010/5/1132
