Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/3
Page: 30 recto, insert 1, recto
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Letter from Oppé about Brandsby Byland
Letter from Oppé about Brandsby Byland
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Board of Education
July 15th. 1929
Dear Sydney
Thank you very much indeed for the photograph of Brandsby Byland. It more than confirms my memory of the drawing when it was at the Tate. I hadn't then however a clue as to its date but I think that you are perfectly right. It is obviously a wedding present: it has all the characteristics of a wedding cake, even of a whole wedding breakfast. Psychologically it is