BIB_ID
442638
Accession number
MA 13112.178
Creator
Rutherston, Albert, 1881-1953, sender.
Display Date
Bisley, Gloucestershire, England, 1932 October 5
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 16 x 20.7 cm
Notes
Written on printed letterhead stationery from: Nash End Cottage / Bisley Near Stroud / Gloucestershire.
With a note in pencil at left of first page, in Balston's hand, "It was ordered in 1926 & paid for Feb. 1927" (a reference to Rutherston's account of his inscription on the fan painting, giving the date of Balston's commission as 1929).
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.
With a note in pencil at left of first page, in Balston's hand, "It was ordered in 1926 & paid for Feb. 1927" (a reference to Rutherston's account of his inscription on the fan painting, giving the date of Balston's commission as 1929).
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 him that "The Sitwells Performing" (a watercolor commissioned from Rutherston by Balston) "is in Lewis's hands being mounted and framed" and will be delivered to Artillery Mansions; apologizing for the way Balston has been treated "over this generously commissioned work", explaining that the work has been finished for some time, but that he wanted to see again before sending it away, and remarking that he believes it to be one of the best things he has done; noting that he has inscribed the picture at left, "A comedy of manners, London", and at right, "T.E. Balston commandit 1929. Albert Rutherston fecit 1932.", and pointing out that he has included portraits of "R. Ellis Roberts, the Lowinsky's, myself & among the Rich & worldly Betty Ricketts", adding that the "intellectuals are mostly bored" and that he "had to have my jest" and that Balston will see it all, he hopes, "with an amused and approving eye"; writing that he has been hard at work, has gotten "a good deal done", and that they hope to see him in the Autumn; noting that have been domestically "unsettled" with servant troubles and painters, decorators, and relatives "at our gates", and that he begins (teaching) at Oxford next week.
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