Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/3
Page: 10 recto (numbered 17), insert 2, recto
Description
Letter from A. P. Oppé regarding purchase of a drawing (Doorway to Rievaulx Abbey Refectory)
Letter from A. P. Oppé regarding purchase of a drawing (Doorway to Rievaulx Abbey Refectory)
Date: 26 Nov. 1928
Transcription
THIS LETTER COMES FROM A. P. (PAUL) OPPÉ
18 Cheyne Gardens, Chelsea, S.W.3
or
Board of Education, Whitehall. etc. etc.
Nov. 26th 1928.
Dear Kitson,
I congratulate you on the acquisition & on, at last, learning to buy properly! I am not a bit surprised at the price. <£4.4 or 4½ g[uinea]s> It was not the tempting morsel for the dealers, not what they understand etc. etc.
But I am not going to take advantage of your very kind suggestion (assuming that you could have made it to me) If you had only seen the drawing through me, yes, I should have accepted it. But you would have seen it anyhow & your price was higher than mine. Therefore I recede.
I am, you see, not so angry with you for crediting my letter to Duke as with