Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/117
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 573: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SEVENTEEN AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED TO MRs. EVANS, WIFE OF HER COLOUR PRINTER. Bap waVOD WITH FIVE SKETCHES BY KATE GREENAWAY IN THE TEXT. EIGHT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED TO ADA AND HETTY EVANS: IO pp., 8vo. £60 Referring to her visits to Mrs. Evans and sending her a letter from George Eliot (Mrs. Lewes). Also mentioning her work and her visit to John Ruskin at Coniston; Locker-Lampson’s ‘‘ London Lyrics,’ etc. 3 After breakfast I am allowed (which is a great favour) to go into the study and see all sorts of beautiful things, with little talks and remarks from Mr. Ruskin, as he writes, then we go [for] drives, walks or on the lake till tea time, then it is dinner time, then he reads us something nice or talks in the most beautiful manner, words can hardly say the sort of man his is, perfect—simply. Of course, the sort of scenery is known to you, to me it is very new, the streams and rocks, and waterfalls. All the flowers seem out together, at the back of the house is a mcor. So grand and solitary it is my special delight. a te te: ‘‘ The party was not very lively . . . there was an aesthetic artist there, real genuine sort, who drank in the Elgin marbles for recreation. No wonder. Du Maurier hates them. . . . The other day I heard I was 60. To-day I hear I’m making 2,000 a year.”’ Ktc. «6. ~D’ve done the Twins. I wish I’d known in what light the Leweses regarded them before, as it is, they are literal, I’m afraid, if you think them a failure. Send me word and V’ll do another. I’ve also done two little babies. [I’m going to have them put into mounts. I think they will look more importaht.’’ Etc. ‘‘T’ve been to the Lockers. I think they liked the drawings, they said they did and were very nice and pleasant. Mr. Locker gave me his London Lyrics and Mrs. Locker gave me a book of hers, they are so nice to talk to.’’ Etc. ‘e . I was glad to get the letter from Mrs. Lewes, though I didn’t want her to feel she must write! Papa said you would like to see the note so I enclose it with this. Will you mind sending it back by Mr. Evans, not Post, for now I’ve got it I’d like to take care of it.’’ Etc. . I have so many things to do because I can’t afford -to pay for them to be done and my little better bit of time is taken up writing to Mr. Ruskin every week, but [for] now he can’t do things or often go out that means so much to him. Then I am trying to do Childreh’s Portraits Life Size—in oils, this means giving up a lot of time to practising, a year possibly—and making no money, then I’ve the House to see to, and my dresses and needlework, and trying to write my life. So you will I think see there is a good deal more than a day’s work in each day.’’ Etc. ‘‘T must not go anywhere till the book is finished. I have 8 more drawings to do else I would have liked to come.’’ Ete. be
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