BIB_ID
442545
Accession number
MA 13112.171
Creator
Rutherston, Albert, 1881-1953, sender.
Display Date
Bisley, Gloucestershire, England, 1927 December 4
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
Informing Balston that he has done two drawings of Osbert (Sitwell) and one of Sacheverell, which will be delivered early that week; complainging that Osbert is "a bad sitter", telling Balston to use either for the book, but he thinks "the profile one in crayon the best", writing that he will come up to finish his drawing of Edith (Sitwell) in 10 days, and when he has finished the set, he will present Balston with one of the drawings.
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