Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/6
Page:
Description
Letter to SD Kitson from RH Mottram, continued
Handwritten letter to SD Kitson from Ralph Hale Mottram, page two continued
Date: 1930-31
Transcription
The book is in my possession as secretary
to the Congregation. I shall be delighted
to show it to you when next in Norwich.
I can find no date on the portrait
& do not at present follow your reasons
(no doubt excellent ones) for placing
it in 1877. Pendlebury Houghton was
Minister from 1787 to 1812 (with a
gap of 2 years 1809-1811). I should
have thought it unlikely that Cotman
would have made a journey in order
to do this pencil portrait, when the
subject of it was close at hand during
these years. But you know best.
Thank you so much for quoting
the JB Crome letter. No doubt Mr Batchelor has told you that there are
Cotman letters in the collection the
late F Johnson bequeathed to the
Free library here lately. With kind regards
Believe me. RH Mottram