- Title
- Letter from Marie Seton to Ronald Moody, addressed from Bombay
- Date
- 16 May 1956
- Description
- In reply to a letter from Moody. In this letter Marie Seton reaffirms her reactions to Indian sculpture and art and her desire to understand more. She states that Gandhi is worshipped as a God but his ideas are rejected. Seton also gives a description of her contradictory impressions of India, her encounters with Parsis and Indian Jews, her impressions of Ajanta, Sanchi, and Ellora caves, and her thoughts on Western influence in India, Hinduism, and esoteric sects.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Cynthia Moody, the sculptor's niece, 1995.
- Reference
- TGA 956/1/2/58/23
