Letter from Isabel Field to Percy Hodgkins
Date
27 Aug 1947
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Date
27 Aug 1947
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151 Terrace Wednesday Aug 27, 1947 in pencil
Dear Percy
I am in communication with Frances’ trustees Messrs “Piper, Smith & Piper” lawyers, 31 Warwick Square, Westminster, London who have sent me a copy of her Will made in 1941. You & I are beneficiaries also Michael & Bertie’s two girls Joan & Audrey who will take their Father’s share. I know nothing whatsoever as to the extent of the Will but in any case it will take some time to be proved & her hospital, cremation, funeral & all just debts & testamentary expenses must be paid first.
I understand they are holding an exhibition of her work in London & Birmingham and it will be some time before we get any further news of her estate. She was not in need. But the cruel winter and what you have always called the “Cursed Hodgkins Stomach” must have brought about her untimely death. I am heartbroken not to have seen her again we will not meet her like again. I am 80 in Dec. and have been seriously ill with gastric ulceration for the last 6 weeks. I pray that you are keeping well. I hear from Michael regularly. Have just sent him some money - sale of one of the unframed sketches in his collection. The collection is not very valuable all done in Dunedin in the 1880’s & bought by Baba. Do try & write me a line I have yr name “Percy d’Esterre Hodgkins born at Northcote Dunedin May 20th 1973 [1873].
There are not many of us left now. Did you know that Rose Day is dead & Girlie is married. Her name is Preston Thomas. Love Sissie Over
A letter from the Prime Minister Mr Atlee was received at the Hospital in Weymouth just before Frances breathed her last asking to submit her name in the Birthday Honours. (in pencil) Tragic
Dear Percy
I am in communication with Frances’ trustees Messrs “Piper, Smith & Piper” lawyers, 31 Warwick Square, Westminster, London who have sent me a copy of her Will made in 1941. You & I are beneficiaries also Michael & Bertie’s two girls Joan & Audrey who will take their Father’s share. I know nothing whatsoever as to the extent of the Will but in any case it will take some time to be proved & her hospital, cremation, funeral & all just debts & testamentary expenses must be paid first.
I understand they are holding an exhibition of her work in London & Birmingham and it will be some time before we get any further news of her estate. She was not in need. But the cruel winter and what you have always called the “Cursed Hodgkins Stomach” must have brought about her untimely death. I am heartbroken not to have seen her again we will not meet her like again. I am 80 in Dec. and have been seriously ill with gastric ulceration for the last 6 weeks. I pray that you are keeping well. I hear from Michael regularly. Have just sent him some money - sale of one of the unframed sketches in his collection. The collection is not very valuable all done in Dunedin in the 1880’s & bought by Baba. Do try & write me a line I have yr name “Percy d’Esterre Hodgkins born at Northcote Dunedin May 20th 1973 [1873].
There are not many of us left now. Did you know that Rose Day is dead & Girlie is married. Her name is Preston Thomas. Love Sissie Over
A letter from the Prime Minister Mr Atlee was received at the Hospital in Weymouth just before Frances breathed her last asking to submit her name in the Birthday Honours. (in pencil) Tragic
Pages
3 pages
Institutional No.
MS-Papers-0085-50
Credit Line
Letters
to
Isabel
Field.
Field,
Isabel
Jane,
1867-1950
:
Correspondence
of
Frances
Hodgkins
and
family
/
collected
by
Isabel
Field.
Ref:
MS-Papers-0085-50.
Alexander
Turnbull
Library,
Wellington,
New
Zealand.
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23188791
https://natlib.govt.nz/records/23188791