Letter from Frances Hodgkins to Douglas Glass
Date
16 Jul 1942
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Catalogue number
FHL366
Date
16 Jul 1942
Transcript
Studio Cottage West St Corfe Castle Wareham Dorset July 16th 42
My Dear Douglas
I wonder if you are still at Brixham. I write to ask because if so I would so much like to break my journey to Wales for a few days & have the pleasure of seeing you & Jane & the son. I should find it very inspiring to see you & your handiwork – very attractive I am told it is.
I would not take up your valuable time. Julian Trevelyan spoke enthusiastically of which you were doing & but for illness I would have come to see you when in Somerset. I am quite well again and all of you I hope are flourishing.
Drop me a short line to say if you are willing & able to find a room in either Hotel or Inn not too far away from you & Jane. I don’t like too much walking.
I have been in Corfe nearly a year. A deadly one. Living primitive in a 2 roomed cottage next to my big old studio. Lots of near raids & scares but no scars so far. Farmers in the neighbourhood are being evacuated hard luck for them in mid summer now haymaking & the harvest still to come. It is likely we will all have to get out to make room for a school of gunnery.
You know of course Lefevre Gallery is re-opened I am making a try for a show in the late Autumn.
How often I have wished you were some where handy to take photographs of my paintings. I value the 2 prints you have sent me – trees – 2 hands. Don’t hesitate to say you can’t find a room. I expect Brixham is crowded out like everywhere else. But I thought it would be nice if there was one. My love to you both Frances Hodgkins Is painting in the Harbour allowed?
My Dear Douglas
I wonder if you are still at Brixham. I write to ask because if so I would so much like to break my journey to Wales for a few days & have the pleasure of seeing you & Jane & the son. I should find it very inspiring to see you & your handiwork – very attractive I am told it is.
I would not take up your valuable time. Julian Trevelyan spoke enthusiastically of which you were doing & but for illness I would have come to see you when in Somerset. I am quite well again and all of you I hope are flourishing.
Drop me a short line to say if you are willing & able to find a room in either Hotel or Inn not too far away from you & Jane. I don’t like too much walking.
I have been in Corfe nearly a year. A deadly one. Living primitive in a 2 roomed cottage next to my big old studio. Lots of near raids & scares but no scars so far. Farmers in the neighbourhood are being evacuated hard luck for them in mid summer now haymaking & the harvest still to come. It is likely we will all have to get out to make room for a school of gunnery.
You know of course Lefevre Gallery is re-opened I am making a try for a show in the late Autumn.
How often I have wished you were some where handy to take photographs of my paintings. I value the 2 prints you have sent me – trees – 2 hands. Don’t hesitate to say you can’t find a room. I expect Brixham is crowded out like everywhere else. But I thought it would be nice if there was one. My love to you both Frances Hodgkins Is painting in the Harbour allowed?
Sender's address
Studio Cottage, West Street, Corfe Castle, Dorset
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E
H
McCormick
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