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Letter from John Hadfield, Mundesley, to Thomas Balston, 1949 July 22 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
442831
Accession number
MA 13112.206
Creator
Hadfield, John, sender.
Display Date
Mundesley, England, 1949 July 22
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 20.5 x 17.3 cm
Notes
Written on blue printed letterhead stationery from: Cook's Hill / Mundesley / Norwich / Norfolk.
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
Writing that he has read Balston's Introduction (i.e. to Balston's exhibition catalog "Wood-engraving in modern English books"), praising it and stating that he no criticism to offer aside from the observation that Clare Leighton "seems to get a very modest showing" considering the influential importance of her work, and a minor correction to the text.