BIB_ID
440941
Accession number
MA 13112.14
Creator
Betjeman, John, 1906-1984, sender.
Display Date
Wantage, England, 1951 February 17
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 pages) ; 16.1 x 20.3 cm
Notes
Written on printed letterhead stationery: Farnborough, / Wantage, / Berkshire.
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see: MA 13112.
Forms part of a collection chiefly composed of letters received from friends and associates of the English publisher Thomas Balston (1883-1967); see: MA 13112.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Concerning an unspecified example of work by the architect William Butterfield about which Balston has consulted with him, remarking that, if the decoration was done in 1887 "you may say that he was past his prime", observing that it "sounds like untouched Butterfield" and that it would be "a shame to quote it in a derogatory sense."
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