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- Created by
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Recipient
- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Title
- Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
- Date
- [17 January 1941]
- Description
- Addressed from 35 Pretoria Road, Chesterton, Cambridge. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Sussex. The letter provides an update of his time in Cambridge and mentions Lydia [Lopokova] and [John Maynard Keynes]. 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 8010/5/1794
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 D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell TGA 8010/5/1794
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