Sir Cedric Morris, Bt, recipient: Arthur Lett-Haines

Letter from Cedric Morris to Arthur Lett-Haines

[c.November 1939]

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Created by: Sir Cedric Morris, Bt 1889–1982
Recipient: Arthur Lett-Haines 1894–1978
Title: Letter from Cedric Morris to Arthur Lett-Haines
Date: [c.November 1939]
Description: Addressed Tidcombe [Manor, Wiltshire]. The letter concerns plans to purchase [Benton End], Eve Disher wanting Morris to hold portrait classes in London at Carl T[hompson's] studio and a portrait of A[ngus?]. The letter also mentions the marriages of Kiedrych [Rhys'] and [Al]fred Janes and an exhibition including his work ['Younger British Artists' at the Ashmolean, organised with the Contemporary Art Society].
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to the Tate Archive by Ronald Blythe, one of Morris's executors, in 1983.
Reference: TGA 8317/1/4/116

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Archive context

Personal papers of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines TGA 8317 (238)
- Correspondence to and from Cedric Morris TGA 8317/1 (238)
- - Correspondence between Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines TGA 8317/1/4 (238)
  - - Letter from Cedric Morris to Arthur Lett-Haines TGA 8317/1/4/116