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- Created by
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Recipient
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Title
- Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [24 April 1924]
- Description
- Addressed from Charleston [Sussex] written on 46 Gordon Square notepaper. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Cleeve House, Seend, Melksham by Devizes, Wilts. The letter concerns general news mentioning he had lunch with 'the Keynes' [John Maynard and Lydia Lopokova]; the letter also mentions Bell's children Quentin, Julian and Angelica. 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 8010/5/1315
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 TGA 8010/5/1315
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