- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [18 January 1922]
- Description
- Addressed from Hotel de Londres [Paris]. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, London. The letter concerns a flu virus spreading at the time and offers advice on how to avoid it. The letter also mentions meeting [Jean?] Cocteau and Keith Baines. 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 8010/5/1247
