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- John Banting 1902–1971
- Recipient
- Margaret Low died 1945
- Title
- Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender and Margaret ‘Lolly’ Low
- Date
- [c.1930s–1940s]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- This collection was presented to the Tate Archive by Humphrey Spender in 1997.
- Reference
- TGA 9717/1/26
Description
This letter, written from Paris at 'Mme Reynolds' house, begins 'Dear Lolling and Humph', followed by cartoon illustrations of a woman made from an elaborate squiggle and a man sat down saying 'Humph!'.
John Banting explains he is currently staying in a spare room of an American friend who has works of [Constantin] Brancusi and [Alexander] Calder around her house. He praises [the writer] Norman Douglas.
He continues by expressing regret that the painting of Lolly remains unfinished, 'that chest needs pushing back so considerably'. He ends the letter with large decorative letters spelling 'LOVE'.