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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
- [c.14 May 1944]
- Description
- Addressed from More's Hotel, Glasgow. Addressed to Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, Sussex, England. The postcard concerns Glasgow School of Art where he held a lecture. The letter also mentions Allan [Walton] and that he is going to Edinburgh to visit the [Royal School of Art].
- 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 8010/5/1803
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 8010/5/1803
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