Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Dorothy Selby
Date
27 Apr 1925
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Catalogue number
FHL062
Date
27 Apr 1925
Transcript
142 Wellington Rd Withington Manchester April 27th
Dear Miss Selby
Your letter was waiting for me when I arrived here on the 25th.
The one from Montreuil was not forwarded. Will Fate not permit us to meet? It seems not. There will be no summer Class this year as I am sailing for Australia at the end of June for an indefinite time. Art is paying so badly & I find it hard to make a living by it so I am emigrating in the hope of finding a better opening out there. I am told there are better earning prospects and the climate will be a little tenderer.
I hate making the plunge but once made, I trust that I shall not look back.
If you cared about it of course I could give you one or two demonstrations in my Water Colour methods (the less modern method on which I teach) and look at some of your work. I shall be in Town all June & could easily fit this in. This address will find me till May 28th.
I hope you are well. Yours sincerely Frances Hodgkins
Dear Miss Selby
Your letter was waiting for me when I arrived here on the 25th.
The one from Montreuil was not forwarded. Will Fate not permit us to meet? It seems not. There will be no summer Class this year as I am sailing for Australia at the end of June for an indefinite time. Art is paying so badly & I find it hard to make a living by it so I am emigrating in the hope of finding a better opening out there. I am told there are better earning prospects and the climate will be a little tenderer.
I hate making the plunge but once made, I trust that I shall not look back.
If you cared about it of course I could give you one or two demonstrations in my Water Colour methods (the less modern method on which I teach) and look at some of your work. I shall be in Town all June & could easily fit this in. This address will find me till May 28th.
I hope you are well. Yours sincerely Frances Hodgkins
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142 Wellington Rd, Withington - Manchester
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