Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/3
Page: 13 recto, insert 2, recto
Description
Letter from H. T. H. (Tom) Foley to Kitson, not allowing him access to a collection of drawings and etchings that have been stored away due to a house fire and the need to rebuild the house
Letter from H. T. H. (Tom) Foley to Kitson, not allowing him access to a collection of drawings and etchings that have been stored away due to a house fire and the need to rebuild the house
Date: 6 November 1930
Transcription
Station Stoke Edith
Telephone Farrington 2
Stoke Edith
Hereford.
November 6th. 1930
Dear Kitson,
Mr Foster wrote to me about the collection of drawings and engravings and I replied to him. I am sorry to say that at present they are all inaccessible and stored and that until we have moved the things into the new house I am afraid I cannot get them out. The majority were turned, I think, into a history of Somersetshire and the books are all carefully put away. I can well understand your anxiety to see them as you are writing a book, and under different circumstances should have been delighted to let you have