Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/6
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Letter to SD Kitson from PA Mottram concerning Cotman's pencil portrait of the Rev. Pendlebury Houghton
Handwritten letter to SD Kitson from Ralph Hale Mottram
Date: 1930-31
Transcription
POPLAR AVENUE
EATON
NORWICH
Cotman's pencil portrait of the Rev: Pendlebury Houghton
9 May 1931
Dear Mr Kitson
I venture to reply direct to your
letter of 6th to Mr Leney because I can
give the information, & because I can
claim acquaintance through Mr Ar.
Batchelor who has often spoken of you.
The Cotman drawing of Pendlebury
Houghton is pasted (by the corner) into
Taylor's manuscript "History of the
Congregation of Protestant Dissenters
Worshipping at the Octagon Chapel"
which he finished writing in 1796.
The MS is most interesting & beautiful
& contains, besides, all the unsuccessful
competing designs, only which that
of the existing Octagon was built.