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- Dag Hammarskjöld
- Recipient
- Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975
- Title
- Letter sent by Dag Hammarskjöld to Barbara Hepworth regarding one of her sculptures
- Date
- 11 September 1961
- Medium
- Ink on paper
- Description
- Includes the last letter sent by Dag Hammarskjöld to Barbara Hepworth before his death. He thanks her for the sculpture she sent him and expresses his love for Hepworth's work, writing 'your gift gives me great joy of a kind which ultimately is of great help'.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by the Barbara Hepworth Estate, January 2013.
- Reference
- TGA 20132/2/1/5/14
Archive context
- The remaining personal papers of Barbara Hepworth TGA 20132 (43)
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- Professional Correspondence TGA 20132/2 (43)
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- Correspondence and publications regarding the commission ‘Single Form’ for the United Nations TGA 20132/2/1 (43)
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- Correspondence with Dag Hammarskjöld TGA 20132/2/1/5 (18)