Verlag: Headed 13 Airlie Gardens W8 2 Nov, 1933
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
One page, obl.12mo, small stain not affecting text, clear and good condition. Text: "I fear the newspapers gave a sensational aspect to a simple matter. [?] you liked [?name indecipherable to me] & his work at the Gallery. But his salary was quite insufficient. He was given to believe that this wd be raised, & this was not done. So he reluctantly resigned & is going elsewhere, with at least a living wage.".
Verlag: 'Chelsea Glebe Place | Sunday'. No place
Anbieter: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
1p, 8vo. Text clear and complete, on heavily chipped and worn thin paper, with loss to extremities. An unusual and revealing letter, in which Rothenstein gives his own jokey suggestion of how Horder should approach a biographical entry he has been asked to write, begins: 'My dear Horder of course you will do it! "Mr W. R. whose portraits never fail to give dissatisfaction to his sitters, was expelled from The Slade School in 1889, whence he went to Paris, finding no professor would have anything to do with him, he set up for himself, acquired a personality which enabled him to live in credit for some few years, which, however, will scarcely help him to slow that tide which must carry him off from the field of art. A familiar figure at the café Royal, Mr W. R. has endeared himself to the hearts of many of our London waiters." The letter concludes: 'I could do it, I believe, beautifully myself. When are you going to see me? I go to paint the poet Bridges [i.e. Robert Bridges, poet laureate] this week, but shall be back in Town the week after why not come lunch! Through what trip [sic] door did you disappear the other night?' Valediction: 'Yours always Will Rothenstein'.