BIB_ID
442542
Accession number
MA 13112.168
Creator
Rutherston, Albert, 1881-1953, sender.
Display Date
Bisley, Gloucestershire, England, 1927 October 9
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 12.3 x 19.7 cm
Notes
Written on printed letterhead stationery from: Nash End Cottage / Bisley Near Stroud / Gloucestershire.
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
Explaining that he did not answer him letter sooner because he has been hard at work on (illustrations for) a volume of Humbert Wolfe's poems, which he was only given ten days to complete; informing Balston that the book will be issued in an edition of only 25, hand colored by himself, "at a dreadful price"; mentioning that he will go to Oxford tomorrow to correct the proofs of his "theatre book", after which he will return to finish a painting and design for Batsford, and specifying that he would therefore like to schedule "London & the Sitwells'" at the end of the month; adding that he has taken a teaching job for one day a week, and got "an Austin 7 to do it with", and stating that "a year of the job will pay the Austin"; mentioning that "M. & I have had vile colds" but are otherwise well.
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