Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to Rex Nan Kivell, [1936-1939?].

Concerning his frustration with his inability to market his own work and his decision with regard to his agents; saying "For years the Leicester Galleries have acted as my principle agents but except at one-man shows, the arrangement does not give me enough sales. For some time now I have resorted to holding exhibitions of watercolours between full one-man exhibitions and for the past two years these have been held at the Redfern and you have gradually become, without question, a very important selling agency for my water colours. Never the less I find I cannot go on with this decentralized policy[.] I may strike a good or a bad time for a show but the fact remains, there is no steady demand for my work in any one quarter and no single organisation working solidly for me all the time...After careful consideration I came to the conclusion that Tooth's possessed the necessary machinery for solving my problems which involved not only a centralized selling organisation but a relief for me from the whole worrying business of trying to market my own work. This of course is particularly necessary if I am to be out of England for long periods in the future. Last week I approached Tooth's and we had a comprehensive talk the result of which is that I propose to make them, for the time being, my sole agents. Now, I have two unhappy things to do. Cut adrift from my old friends at the Leicester Galleries, and from you;" adding that the new arrangement will continue to permit him to "give you personally a first view & first refusal of small drawings such as you have been in the habit of collection from time to time in a private way from the studio. It is something I have always enjoyed doing & I feel we have each profited by - so, if you care to continue now & then, to be curious as to what is 'under the bed' there you are. As to other work, you can always have it through Tooth or what pictures they do not need I am free to sell in the studio direct... I shall be very distressed if this action of mine makes any difficulties between us as friends."