BIB_ID
442818
Accession number
MA 13112.221
Creator
Woolley, Leonard, 1880-1960, sender.
Display Date
Winchester, England, 1958 October 19
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 13.6 cm
Notes
Written on blue printed letterhead stationery from: King's Worthy Court, / Nr. Winchester.
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
Acknowledging that he ought to have written sooner, thanking Balston for a "pleasant evening" and a "generous gift", and recounting how busy he is at present with his book projects and a lecture to be given at Oxford the next day; discussing the placement of some new pictures, including one by Tom Nash and Balston himself; stating that he hopes to "see Parker at Oxford tomorrow & to get a move on about the P. Veronese: if he doesn't take it I gather that George Churchill would be very glad of it"; observing that there are some good sales that week, although he doubts he will get to them, and that the Sothebys sale has probably "ruined the hopes of every dealer & even rubbish will start to get big prices!"
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