Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Isabel Field

Date
25 Nov 1900 See full details See transcription

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Date
25 Nov 1900
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I am afraid this is rather a stupid letter. Mother & I have been up to the Cemetery this morning and it was very hot so we spent the afternoon on our beds, & left Willie & Jean in possession of the drawing room. Jessie hasn’t turned up yet, I do hope she will manage to bring my pictures down for me, I am mustering them all for my Art Union. Wright hasn’t forwarded my cheque yet. There has been another bid of £8 by the same man for your picture – being a draper it is easily understood, and he also offered for Dr Roberts £5.5 for that little road scene of yours. If I get it, the big picture, for my Art Union I shall consider myself very lucky, for it alone would help sell the tickets, but I know it will go, so many people want it for a prize. I have been very lucky & have sold 4 pictures £20 in all. I was an idiot & priced my pictures too low – I was so frightened it shouldn’t sell. I could have sold some of them twice over – and at double the price. I enclose May’s letter isn’t it absurdly snobbish and small-minded. I am glad the old girl has not forgotten me and I am certainly looking forward to seeing her again. Have you heard that our mutual friend Mr Austen is married and has been all along, what a gay deceiver to say nothing about being very ungentlemanly – don’t you think – poor Lily I believe she liked him. Don’t worry yourself about what the Dr told you, he is an alarmist. Mrs Woodhouse told me he told one of her sisters the same thing which another Dr proved to be only severe indigestion. Whatever you do take care of yourself, & don’t run the chance of a relapse. With much love from Mother and self, your loving sister Fanny.
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4 pages
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Institutional No.
MS-Papers-0085-08
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Letters from Frances Hodgkins. Field, Isabel Jane, 1867-1950 : Correspondence of Frances Hodgkins and family / collected by Isabel Field. Ref: MS-Papers-0085-08. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23192117

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