Cotmania. Vol. III. 1928-9

and therefore isn't good evidence. The former is curiously slimy, as thought largely in body colour is more violet than any of the blue drawings that I've seen. My new Rievaulx is slimy enough, but I don't quite see where P. S. M. [Munn] enters into it.
Nor is Turner to be ignored in estimating these influences. But, so far as I can see, Cotman only came in contact with his work; he can scarcely have worked side by side with him as with Girtin & Munn.
And, all the time, all these men were working in totally different manners.
I'm sorry that Acott proved a false clue, but if they had been genuine they would probably have been sold before; in fact you say that they were. Since, too, son Miles is no doubt responsible for the whole story they throw a lurid, if not unexpected, light on the manner & customs of the whole family.
I am all agog to hear of your adventure with the spiritual Aunts in company with the Somerset portfolio. I am in complete agreement with the harvest field wh[ich] I admired (with some sense of paradox) at the Tate.
Yours ever
Paul Oppé
Were you on the Sussex Downs on Wednesday? If so, I suppose that you are involved in another mystery.