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- Created by
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Recipient
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Title
- Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [4 May 1936]
- Description
- Addressed from Villa San Semola [Bosga Nova, Palma de Mallorca, Spain]. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle near Lewes, Sussex. Readdressed in another hand to 8 Fitzroy Street, London. The postcard provides an update of his travel plans. The postcard features a photograph of the town of Palma, Mallorca.
- 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 8010/5/1735
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)
- Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5/1735
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