Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/3/1/3
Page: 85
Description
Copy of letter from John Joseph Cotman to Arthur Dixon, March 1834
John Joseph thanks Dixon for sending sketches by Geldart, including a portrait of Dixon, and now returns them to him. Alfred Cotman is unwell.
Date: 03/1834
Transcription
[in pencil] March 1834
My dear Arthur
I have but a few minutes to say a few words to you. I am extremely thankful for the sketches [*[note in pencil] Geldart’s sketches] you sent and must throw myself on your clemency for not returning them according to order, but they were so beautiful I could not part with them the hour after I had received them. I should not have been able to have looked at them once fairly. for I was in a bustle about dinner and parting with Edmund. They are enclosed with this note and I hope are not detained much too long. I am delighted with your portrait tis very like and very beautiful it gives me much pleasure to have it before me. I hope all goes on well in Norwich you must have an eye to Master Alfred for me, will you I am sorry to hear he is poorly. As for me I am not unwell nor have I been so have no fear on that account. Sam was with us yesterday evening and intends writing to you on Sunday I think he is quite well. You must let me hear from you often and believe me to remain
Your sincere friend
J.J.Cotman