BIB_ID
442015
Accession number
MA 13112.129
Creator
Nash, Tom (Thomas Saunders), 1891-1968, sender.
Display Date
Reading, England, 1930 May 28
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.7 x 13.4 cm
Notes
Written from: 29 Tremaine Road / Anerley. S.E. 20.
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
Informing Balston that he has been offered the position of art master at Ackworth School near Pontefract, where he will make £350 a year and be entitled to a government pension after 30 years of teaching, of which he has already completed 15; writing that he finds the school appealing, that it has a "lovely art room" and studio for the art master, and that the ample vacation time should allow him to continue to pursue his painting; adding that he hopes to sell the "Crucifixion" and that the Contemporary Art Society are giving £20 towards the purchase of the painting "providing Mr. Withers will contribute the remaining amount"; mentioning that Mr. Withers has invited him to Banbury for the weekend, but that he does not have enough money to afford the fare; explaining that the prospective job he formerly mentioned painting cinema signs proved "impossible", but that he is considering the possibility of submitting ideas for posters to the London Underground; adding that (Rex) Nan Kivell has suggested he try making some lino-cuts, and that if he can only tide himself over until September he will "feel all anxiety past."
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