![Charleston Trust (Lewes, UK), ‘Page 1’ [c.September–October 1928]](https://storage.googleapis.com/tate-digital/ui/2.13-compressed/static/images/placeholder/placeholder-4x3.gif)
- Created by
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Recipient
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly in Cambridge]
- Date
- [c.September–October 1928]
- Description
- Addressed from Cafe de l'Univers. The letter concerns an update of his time in Paris and mentions Angelica [Bell], Virginia [Woolf] and Franzi [von Haas]. The letter also discusses some of the artworks he has seen including 'some really lovely [Henri Matisses and] [Georges-Pierre] Seurats a great many [André] Derains'.
- 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 8010/5/1446
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)
You might like
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[28 April 1926]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[18 October 1927]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [possibly at Charleston]
[c.1927–8]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
15 January 1922
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
12 October 1927
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
6 October 1929
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
9 October 1927
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[30 September 1931]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
2 October 1929
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Postcard from D.G. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[7 April 1926]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from D.G. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
15 October 1929
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[19 October 1928]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[5 January 1932]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[29 May 1921]
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[1 February 1933]
Explore
- interiors(4,369)
- places of entertainment(359)
- café(62)
- places of entertainment(359)
- leisure and pastimes(7,581)
- art and craft(2,344)
- art appreciation(121)
- art and craft(2,344)
- nature(46,200)
- people(35,246)
- named individuals(12,434)
- Bell, Angelica, later Garnett(161)
- Bell, Vanessa(696)
- Derain, André(25)
- Matisse, Henri(24)
- Seurat, Georges(4)
- Woolf, Virginia(150)
- von Haas, Franzi(17)
- named individuals(12,434)
- places(41,793)
- cities, towns, villages (non-UK)(13,066)
- Paris - non-specific(391)
- countries and continents(17,327)
- France(3,599)
- UK countries and regions(24,920)
- East Anglia(939)
- England(19,656)
- England, East(1,385)
- UK counties(20,114)
- Cambridgeshire(221)
- UK cities, towns and villages(13,075)
- cities, towns, villages (non-UK)(13,066)
- work and occupations(14,300)
- arts and entertainment(6,576)
- artist - non-specific(2,086)
- artist, draughtsman(670)
- artist, painter(2,168)
- artist, printmaker(610)
- artist, sculptor(1,459)
- literary(2,924)
- royalty and social rank(1,835)
- aristocrat(1,356)
- arts and entertainment(6,576)
- society(34,890)
- sex and relationships(5,273)
- friendship(1,545)
- homosexuality(1,628)
- nationality(18,163)
- family(4,123)
- sex and relationships(5,273)
- symbols & personifications(7,227)
- inscriptions(6,737)
- initials(405)
- inscriptions(6,737)
- objects(23,037)