Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Dorothy Selby
Date
04 May 1927
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Catalogue number
FHL074
Date
04 May 1927
Transcript
Studio III Grosvenor St Manchester May 4th
Dear Miss Selby
May I ask you a very great favour – this – I sent 2 pictures to London for the Duveen Show at Leeds. Both were rejected and are now eating their heads off at Burnlets at the rate of 1/- a week for storage which will ruin me if it goes on much longer.
As I am hoping to have a Show of my own in London in the Autumn I do not wish to have them sent back to Manchester.
So may I make bold, with my usual impertinence & ask you to kindly put them in your basement or otherwise out of the way.
It would be more than kind. They are quite small in size with no glass & adequately packed. There would be no responsibility of any sort and I would reclaim them later on.
Burnlet will deliver them at Egerton Terrace – I enclose card to him which (I shall be so grateful to you) if you will post in the event of your consenting to house them for me. This will save time. It is worse than a taxi ticking off the tuppences!
I do hope you will forgive me this liberty. My only friends in London with a house are just moving into the country.
Yours sincerely & in haste Frances Hodgkins Don’t stop to write, just a p.c to reassure me.
Dear Miss Selby
May I ask you a very great favour – this – I sent 2 pictures to London for the Duveen Show at Leeds. Both were rejected and are now eating their heads off at Burnlets at the rate of 1/- a week for storage which will ruin me if it goes on much longer.
As I am hoping to have a Show of my own in London in the Autumn I do not wish to have them sent back to Manchester.
So may I make bold, with my usual impertinence & ask you to kindly put them in your basement or otherwise out of the way.
It would be more than kind. They are quite small in size with no glass & adequately packed. There would be no responsibility of any sort and I would reclaim them later on.
Burnlet will deliver them at Egerton Terrace – I enclose card to him which (I shall be so grateful to you) if you will post in the event of your consenting to house them for me. This will save time. It is worse than a taxi ticking off the tuppences!
I do hope you will forgive me this liberty. My only friends in London with a house are just moving into the country.
Yours sincerely & in haste Frances Hodgkins Don’t stop to write, just a p.c to reassure me.
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Studio III, Grosvenor St, Manchester
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