BIB_ID
433404
Accession number
MA 3568.2
Creator
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward), 1859-1936.
Display Date
Cambridge, England, 1928 February 20.
Credit line
Gift of Frederick R. Koch, 1981.
Description
1 items (2 pages) ; 17.6 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Housed with an additional letter from Housman to Barrie dated Trinity College, Cambridge, December 18, 1922 (MA 3568.1)
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Frederick R. Koch, 1981.
Summary
Saying "I hear that you are coy to Rothenstein. I also do not want to sit (the more so because I have suffered enough from his pencil for one lifetime), and if you will stand firm, so will I. The Master of Magdalene likewise is reluctant, but is consulting his Oxford colleague;" adding, in a postscript, "Though Rothenstein cannot draw a likeness, he has a pretty wit, and told Shaw that the secret of his health at his age must be that he has been able to extract ultra-violet rays from lime-light."
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