Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/3
Page: 8 verso (numbered 14), attached letter, side 4
Description
Letter from Luard to Kitson
Letter from Luard to Kitson regarding the return of Normandy sketches
Date: 23 October 1928
Transcription
confidence, by my wife & will be registered to you.
Thank you so much for lending them to me. So really kindly & confidently.
I saw Hardie yesterday & I also saw unknown to me the aquatints after Cozens blottings as suggestions for landscape. They have a bold Japanese look. Hardie says they were done by inking crumpled paper. It is Leonardo's blots on the wall, & Turners' giving
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children paint to dribble with. But it doesn't do the job complete. May I just have a card to say the drawings have reached you in safety to 9 Rue Victor Considérant, Paris XIV
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where I hope to be Saturday night.
Yours ever,
L. D. Luard
There were 20 drawings