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- Created by
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Recipient
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Title
- Letter [from Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [28 January 1922]
- Description
- Addressed from 33 Rue de Verneuil, Paris VI. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, London. The letter concerns a letter sent by Bell to tell him she is nursing three ill people. The letter also mentions Mary [Hutchinson?], [John] Maynard [Keynes] and seeing designs by [Raoul?] Dufy. The reverse of the envelope is inscribed 'Please bring a knife, 2 forks & 2 spoons'.
- 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 8010/5/1255
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 Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5/1255
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