Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/4
Page: 21 recto, insert 1 recto 1
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Letter to Kitson from Leonard Duke, congratulating Kitson on his article in the O W S journal, and giving an impromptu list of Duke's favourite watercolour artists
Letter to Kitson from Leonard Duke, congratulating Kitson on his article in the O W S journal, and giving an impromptu list of Duke's favourite watercolour artists
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24 King Street,
Portman Square, W.
26th Jan 1930
Dear Kitson
I have just been reading your O.W.S. paper on JSC with great pleasure, and I should like to be allowed to congratulate you on having managed to work so much valuable material into so small and readable a compass. When one combines your reading matter with the lists of Cotman's work which follows it one has really got the material out of which you could construct the vast work of many hundred pages to which I hope that your love will one day induce you to give birth. I am sure the offspring would do you every credit and would win the