Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/3/1/4
Page: p 45 recto
Description
Letter from Ann Cotman to her son John Joseph, thanking him for his picture of Edmund.
Typed transcript of letter with handwritten notes.
Date: ?Oct 1835
Transcription
{handwritten note}
? Oct: 1835
{typed transcript}
My dear John
Uncle has just said, he shall leave us to-day, and as they are all gone to the Exhibition, I shall have a little chat with you, it gave me much pleasure to hear from Uncle and Edmund you were well and at work; I thank you, my Love, for the likeness of Edmund, I think it very like. Papa will give his opinions I have not doubt, at all events I know he likes it very much, it now hangs in the back Drawing Room with Walter's, Alfred's, and your own, I wish to have one of Ann and then I should be complete. With what delight could I then gaze on all my children, which you well know is one of my greatest comforts. You will receive by Uncle a Night Shirt a N. Cap the Collars you lent Edmund, the Gloves you sent to be mended and your . -- If there is any thing you want, my Dearest John, that I can make or do for you say so and it shall be done. We have heard from Walter: he is well -- they are all well X X for I must say God bless you my Love, good bye and believe your Ever Affectionate Mother
Ann Cotman.
{handwritten note}
Written in pencil - very badly written.
{handwritten note in margin next to typed transcript below}
different hand. J.R's writing (?)
{typed transcript}
This was enclosed in a paper with a very early drawing by John Sell Cotman and a memorandum of his birth and death of his children written out by John. See the Cotman Family Volume.