Letter from Amy Krauss to Peter Field
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09 Jun 1947
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09 Jun 1947
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Peter Field Esq 193 The Terrace Wellington
Amy E Krauss Redlane Cottage Corfe Castle Dorset
June 9 1947
Dear Mr Field
Very many thanks for your kind letter & also to Mrs Field for hers. I know how very sad you must all feel to have been so far away & not able to visit dear Frances in her last illness.
I don’t think she could have lived without painting & it was wonderful that her last pictures were her best. She said to me not so long ago “I think I shall go out to NZ & then added but of course I shan’t stay there!!” yet she wanted to be there & see you all.
It is kind of you to enquire about the expenses, but the executors are seeing to that & say that all expenses will be paid out of her estate. They asked me to settle any bills here this I have done & sent Mr Piper the account. He is attending to all the business side – settling the probate on any unsold pictures etc & nothing can be done about them till that is fixed up. I refer any points you & Mrs Field have raised to him. Frances left her Father’s pictures packed up & they are still as she left them & will be sent to you.
I shall be so pleased to see you when next you are in England – let’s hope we shall then be less “restriction ridden”. During the whole war we had a glimmer of light in the streets at night. Last winter we had none. In fact, conditions altogether have been very trying. I think all this depressed Frances who longed to go abroad & yet was not strong enough to make an effort to get away. Her show was a climax & the inevitable reaction set in when it was over & she realised she could not paint again.
Excuse this letter being for you both. Next month I am expecting two “great nieces” from Australia that I have never seen; I only hope they won’t be disappointed in the England they dreamed about & longed to see ever since they were children. Kindest regards to you & Mrs Field yours sincerely Amy E Krauss.
[Written along the edge of the letter.] ‘Mr Piper will send you the ashes as Mrs F. suggested”.
Amy E Krauss Redlane Cottage Corfe Castle Dorset
June 9 1947
Dear Mr Field
Very many thanks for your kind letter & also to Mrs Field for hers. I know how very sad you must all feel to have been so far away & not able to visit dear Frances in her last illness.
I don’t think she could have lived without painting & it was wonderful that her last pictures were her best. She said to me not so long ago “I think I shall go out to NZ & then added but of course I shan’t stay there!!” yet she wanted to be there & see you all.
It is kind of you to enquire about the expenses, but the executors are seeing to that & say that all expenses will be paid out of her estate. They asked me to settle any bills here this I have done & sent Mr Piper the account. He is attending to all the business side – settling the probate on any unsold pictures etc & nothing can be done about them till that is fixed up. I refer any points you & Mrs Field have raised to him. Frances left her Father’s pictures packed up & they are still as she left them & will be sent to you.
I shall be so pleased to see you when next you are in England – let’s hope we shall then be less “restriction ridden”. During the whole war we had a glimmer of light in the streets at night. Last winter we had none. In fact, conditions altogether have been very trying. I think all this depressed Frances who longed to go abroad & yet was not strong enough to make an effort to get away. Her show was a climax & the inevitable reaction set in when it was over & she realised she could not paint again.
Excuse this letter being for you both. Next month I am expecting two “great nieces” from Australia that I have never seen; I only hope they won’t be disappointed in the England they dreamed about & longed to see ever since they were children. Kindest regards to you & Mrs Field yours sincerely Amy E Krauss.
[Written along the edge of the letter.] ‘Mr Piper will send you the ashes as Mrs F. suggested”.
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.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22832495
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22832495