Cotmania. Vol. III. 1928-9

Clayton says - send p.c. to him or ring him up before 11 a.m.
Chelsea Dec. 6/28
Dear Kitson,
A young man from Greenwich called Munn seems to me absolutely convincing - until the actual entry in the diary is investigated. Farrington wrote very small; Munn, might read like Mun, conceivably he left out the second 'n'. Greenwich could easily be converted into Norwich by the same kind of mental transition as that of the telephone operators.
I think this far more likely than that the diary was edited either by Farington himself or by Greig. Neither would take the trouble to go back from 1800 to 1798 & I doubt whether Farington left room in his tiny volumes for subsequent additions.
And quite likely that Girton, Munn, Cotman went together to Wales. The first two might have taken the third. The proofs will emerge. There are at Puttick's tomorrow a number of Lound scraps mainly black on coloured paper. Some could certainly pass for Cotman. Also two Cotman drawing copies, numbered very high, 3000 odd, so-signed (Cotman) but evidently by J.J. & a sort of Twickenham, black on blue paper also probably J.J. I gave Meatyard bids for them, but unfortunately Duke has asked one of his main dealers to buy them and let him pick from them & so they may