Letter from Amy Krauss to Isabel Field
Date
14 May 1947
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Date
14 May 1947
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Mrs Field 151 The Terrace Wellington N. Zealand
Redlane Cottage East Street, Corfe Castle Wareham, Dorset Tel Corfe Castle 307 May 14’ 1947
My dear Mrs Field
Thank you for your kind cable. This is a sad letter I am afraid, but had you seen Frances, you could not have wished her to live. The end came very suddenly. I had a wire saying she was suddenly critically ill & then another to say she had died at 12.40 (Tuesday). I think she must have already died when they sent the first wire. She expressed a wish in her will to be cremated. It has been arranged for Saturday morning at 11.30 at Weymouth. I have just been telephoning to Dorothy Selby and I suggested we should send a wreath from the family & she will get it in London for you all : otherwise the papers say “No flowers” & ask New Zealand papers to copy this notice in the Times & Telegraph. The B.B.C. has just announced it in the 9 o’clock news. Dorothy Selby & John Piper (an artist) are the Executors & they are dealing with all her work. She did very little in the last year or two and I think there are mostly drawings left & one or two pictures still at the Gallery. I am so glad she was able to see her Exhibitions there – I took her up to see it & we stayed with Mr (& Mrs) Macdonald the Director of the Gallery as I think I told you before. I will write again shortly. With very kind regards to you and Mr Field. Yours sincerely
Amy E. Krauss.
Redlane Cottage East Street, Corfe Castle Wareham, Dorset Tel Corfe Castle 307 May 14’ 1947
My dear Mrs Field
Thank you for your kind cable. This is a sad letter I am afraid, but had you seen Frances, you could not have wished her to live. The end came very suddenly. I had a wire saying she was suddenly critically ill & then another to say she had died at 12.40 (Tuesday). I think she must have already died when they sent the first wire. She expressed a wish in her will to be cremated. It has been arranged for Saturday morning at 11.30 at Weymouth. I have just been telephoning to Dorothy Selby and I suggested we should send a wreath from the family & she will get it in London for you all : otherwise the papers say “No flowers” & ask New Zealand papers to copy this notice in the Times & Telegraph. The B.B.C. has just announced it in the 9 o’clock news. Dorothy Selby & John Piper (an artist) are the Executors & they are dealing with all her work. She did very little in the last year or two and I think there are mostly drawings left & one or two pictures still at the Gallery. I am so glad she was able to see her Exhibitions there – I took her up to see it & we stayed with Mr (& Mrs) Macdonald the Director of the Gallery as I think I told you before. I will write again shortly. With very kind regards to you and Mr Field. Yours sincerely
Amy E. Krauss.
Pages
2 pages
Institutional No.
MS-Papers-0085-49
Credit Line
Letters
to
Isabel
Field.
Field,
Isabel
Jane,
1867-1950
:
Correspondence
of
Frances
Hodgkins
and
family
/
collected
by
Isabel
Field.
Ref:
MS-Papers-0085-49.
Alexander
Turnbull
Library,
Wellington,
New
Zealand.
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