Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Hannah Ritchie
Date
Oct 1922
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Catalogue number
FHL024
Date
Oct 1922
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My Dear Miss Richie
Thank you so much for your kind letter suggesting I should go to your Mother’s – I would have been delighted to have done so but a friend in St John’s Wood is putting me up at her flat.
If I have time (which I doubt) I will try & see yr Mother first sending her a pc. But I expect to be pretty busy with galleries etc & can make no plans.
I am making a 7.30 start in the morning. I have sent off three packages to London Rd to await me. I should turn up myself either Tuesday or Wed: but will let you know. I have only £2 left of the notes you sent me & no hopes of more coming in for the immediate present tho’ I am told there is £10 for a sale in N.Z. coming to me shortly – but of course it can’t arrive before tomorrow morning! So perhaps it would be as well to send me a few notes to 62 Abbey Road, N.W. 8 in case of accidents by the way side. I have vowed not to spend on anything but fares & taxis. Once in Manchester I shall not be such an expense to you I hope.
You will tell any likely ones about my Painting Class won’t you?
My brain is too tired for more. People will ask you to meals on the last evening – meaning well.
I feel somehow I am biting too deeply into your Bank balance – but time will square it Hannah dear I hope. How interesting about the Dreys – Raymond the critic-son has a clever brain. They are friends – Dorothy drew a good picture of them. I am glad you are both well again.
Closing time I must dash to the Post with this. Thank you for your kind thought & love to you both we’ll meet soon. Yrs F.H. Don’t forget to give me the train time.
Thank you so much for your kind letter suggesting I should go to your Mother’s – I would have been delighted to have done so but a friend in St John’s Wood is putting me up at her flat.
If I have time (which I doubt) I will try & see yr Mother first sending her a pc. But I expect to be pretty busy with galleries etc & can make no plans.
I am making a 7.30 start in the morning. I have sent off three packages to London Rd to await me. I should turn up myself either Tuesday or Wed: but will let you know. I have only £2 left of the notes you sent me & no hopes of more coming in for the immediate present tho’ I am told there is £10 for a sale in N.Z. coming to me shortly – but of course it can’t arrive before tomorrow morning! So perhaps it would be as well to send me a few notes to 62 Abbey Road, N.W. 8 in case of accidents by the way side. I have vowed not to spend on anything but fares & taxis. Once in Manchester I shall not be such an expense to you I hope.
You will tell any likely ones about my Painting Class won’t you?
My brain is too tired for more. People will ask you to meals on the last evening – meaning well.
I feel somehow I am biting too deeply into your Bank balance – but time will square it Hannah dear I hope. How interesting about the Dreys – Raymond the critic-son has a clever brain. They are friends – Dorothy drew a good picture of them. I am glad you are both well again.
Closing time I must dash to the Post with this. Thank you for your kind thought & love to you both we’ll meet soon. Yrs F.H. Don’t forget to give me the train time.
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