Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Ree Gorer
Date
21 May 1937
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Catalogue number
FHL247
Date
21 May 1937
Transcript
Sea View Worth Matravers Dorset Friday
My Dearest Rée
Just two or three lines before I start off for Worth – on my lone – with my belongings bulking below the Plimsoll line. If you could only see me. I feel too feeble to separate my things so am taking them all – including the faithful eider down. I long to be settled. I am a very bad mixer at present. I need unlimited rest & quiet to readjust myself & regain Serenity.
Our letters crossed.
What a quiet & sober Whitsun you had but as you say glorious June will soon be here then the fun will begin.
It really is a crashing bore for you not having yr car – imprisoned in your lovely garden. I beg you not to drown yourself in the lily pond.
No I can’t say I am sylph like yet far from it. I don’t fancy I’ll get best results till I increase the dose. Not yet weighed – that will be the crucial test. I find it very boring having to remember cachet time but I do!
Oh! The string of things I have to remember! Most important: I am an Artist, having a Show in Autumn!
A letter from Duncan Grant asking me to join him & Vanessa Bell at Agnew’s summer Show & 15 other artists of highest calibre.
Will write from Worth. Much love Frances My tailor has delivered the goods.
My Dearest Rée
Just two or three lines before I start off for Worth – on my lone – with my belongings bulking below the Plimsoll line. If you could only see me. I feel too feeble to separate my things so am taking them all – including the faithful eider down. I long to be settled. I am a very bad mixer at present. I need unlimited rest & quiet to readjust myself & regain Serenity.
Our letters crossed.
What a quiet & sober Whitsun you had but as you say glorious June will soon be here then the fun will begin.
It really is a crashing bore for you not having yr car – imprisoned in your lovely garden. I beg you not to drown yourself in the lily pond.
No I can’t say I am sylph like yet far from it. I don’t fancy I’ll get best results till I increase the dose. Not yet weighed – that will be the crucial test. I find it very boring having to remember cachet time but I do!
Oh! The string of things I have to remember! Most important: I am an Artist, having a Show in Autumn!
A letter from Duncan Grant asking me to join him & Vanessa Bell at Agnew’s summer Show & 15 other artists of highest calibre.
Will write from Worth. Much love Frances My tailor has delivered the goods.
Sender's address
Sea View, Worth Matravers, Dorset
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