Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell

Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in London]

[1918]

Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell, ‘Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in London]’ [1918] — © The estate of Duncan Grant

Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported)

License this image

Created by: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Recipient: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Title: Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in London]
Date: [1918]
Description: Addressed from Charleston [Sussex]. The letter asks Bell for seeds.
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 8010/5/1158

Bloomsbury Post-impressionism

Archive context

Correspondence and other papers relating to Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and others TGA 8010 (681)

Letters to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5 (681)

Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in London] TGA 8010/5/1158

You might like

Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in London]

[April 1918]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in London]

[24 July 1918]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in Guildford]

23 April [1918]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in Guildford]

[21 April 1918]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in London]

[26 May 1919]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in Guildford]

[22 April 1918]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly at Asheham]

[1918]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London]

[c.8 November 1917]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London]

[1917]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London]

[30 March 1917]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London]

[c.19 December 1916]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London]

1 September 1916
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London?]

October 1916
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly at Charleston]

[c.9 June 1919]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London]

1916

View by appointment

Explore

architecture(41,310)
- agricultural(1,070)
- - farm(854)
history(5,785)
- military: World War I(674)
- - home front(259)
  - World War I - non-specific(608)
people(35,142)
- named groups(2,823)
- - Omega Workshops(186)
- named individuals(12,487)
- - Bell, Vanessa(696)
places(41,571)
- UK cities, towns and villages(12,754)
- - Firle(584)
  - Firle, Charleston(579)
- UK counties(19,628)
- - Sussex - non-specific(1,809)
  - Sussex, East(1,282)
- UK countries and regions(24,412)
- - England(19,249)
  - England, South East(5,957)
  - England, Southern(9,005)
- UK London(5,207)
- - London - non-specific(3,657)
society(34,938)
- nationality(18,235)
- - English(12,973)
  - Scottish(2,806)
- sex and relationships(5,324)
- - couple(1,291)
  - homosexuality(1,648)