- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London?]
- Date
- [1916]
- Description
- Addressed from Wissett Lodge, Halesworth, Suffolk. The letter mentions not hearing from the Pelham Committee as yet and that his mother is disappointed he is 'going on with agriculture'. The letter also mentions Adrian [Stephen] is on a farm with fellow conscientious objectors.
- 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 8010/5/1138