Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Hannah Ritchie
Date
04 Oct 1922
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Catalogue number
FHL023
Date
04 Oct 1922
Transcript
My Dear Hannah
I simply can’t manage Saturday, try as I will – but will come without fail Wed: following by the train that you travelled by. Please let me have the time on a p.c. A complication of botherations this week – have lost 3 valuable days with a flue attack & have not been able to finish the Decoration I am bringing with me but am out today – no wind & a clear frosty morning. Furthermore Miss Falkner & Miss Hervey have elected to arrive at Highway on Friday from Manchester. I think I told you I have the greatest regard & affection for [them] as friends & artists & as they hope to pick up a barn here, same as mine & beg me “not to fail them” I simply haven’t the heart to desert them the day after they arrive. So this is the note of it. But Wednesday night will see me with you and I am looking forward with glee & hope to it all. Even if I do nothing at all now I may be able to lay a train for later on – to come back to. Am feeling more hopeful & therefore more likely to pull things off. Am bringing box of apples – vegetables & if you wld like them potatoes – a glut here. Oh! And a Marrow size of a baby. Am leaving Mr Bat in possession – I fancy dead as dead.
I saw a darling owl yesterday & am to draw it later.
Forgive me – one short week now & I’ll be with you. Don’t forget train. Miss Faulkner’s brother is Director of Armstrongs she may be able to help a bit with introductions. Till Wed: Yrs F.H.
I simply can’t manage Saturday, try as I will – but will come without fail Wed: following by the train that you travelled by. Please let me have the time on a p.c. A complication of botherations this week – have lost 3 valuable days with a flue attack & have not been able to finish the Decoration I am bringing with me but am out today – no wind & a clear frosty morning. Furthermore Miss Falkner & Miss Hervey have elected to arrive at Highway on Friday from Manchester. I think I told you I have the greatest regard & affection for [them] as friends & artists & as they hope to pick up a barn here, same as mine & beg me “not to fail them” I simply haven’t the heart to desert them the day after they arrive. So this is the note of it. But Wednesday night will see me with you and I am looking forward with glee & hope to it all. Even if I do nothing at all now I may be able to lay a train for later on – to come back to. Am feeling more hopeful & therefore more likely to pull things off. Am bringing box of apples – vegetables & if you wld like them potatoes – a glut here. Oh! And a Marrow size of a baby. Am leaving Mr Bat in possession – I fancy dead as dead.
I saw a darling owl yesterday & am to draw it later.
Forgive me – one short week now & I’ll be with you. Don’t forget train. Miss Faulkner’s brother is Director of Armstrongs she may be able to help a bit with introductions. Till Wed: Yrs F.H.
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