Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/9
Page: p. 29 recto
Description
Letter from Robert Powell to Kitson concerning two Cotman drawings (1)
Date: 1933-1934
Transcription
July 19th 1934
27, South Street,
Thurloe Square, S.W.7
Kensington 6401.
Dear Mr Kitson
I am of course delighted to tell you anything I can about the two Cotman drawings, but I fear it is not very much. They came to me on the death of my aunt, Susan, Lady Worsley about a year ago, and had been left to her by her husband, the late Sir William Worsley of Hovingham Hall, York in 1897. They had certainly been at Hovingham Hall for a great many years previous to that date, but I do not know how or when they