Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden

Letter from Barbara Hepworth to [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden thanking her for a gift

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Created by: Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903–1975
Recipient: Hartley Ramsden 1904 – 1993
Title: Letter from Barbara Hepworth to [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden thanking her for a gift
Date: [c.August–September 1944]
Medium: Graphite on paper
Description: The letter also continues an argument about politics and the Beveridge report, begun while Eates and Ramsden were visitng Cornwall. (See TGA 9310/1/2/89 and 90 for letters from and to Ben Nicholson on the same topic)
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Letters from Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth as well as magazines and a file on modern sculpture and painting were presented to Tate Archive by Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden, May 1993 in order to assist with research for Tate's exhibition on Ben Nicholson. A further 10 boxes of personal papers were presented by Brian Griffin and Jennifer Spark, Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden's executors in 1995. A further two boxes and two box files of papers relating to Ramsden's writing was presented by her literary executor Angela Sutton in 1996.
Reference: TGA 9310/1/1/31