Four Typed Letters Signed, one Autograph Letter Signed, and one Autograph Note Signed, to (successively) Menzies, Perry and Luckhurst, Secretaries, Royal Society of Arts.

Author: 
Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
Publication details: 
1925 to 1938.
£120.00
SKU: 3999

English painter (1880-1952) and member of the International Socialist Organization. All items in good condition, though variously grubby or discoloured with age, lightly creased or with pin holes to corners. All items signed either 'T C Dugdale' or 'T. C. Dugdale'. Several items docketed and/or bearing the Society's stamp. LETTER ONE (typed, 23 June 1925, one page, 12mo, on letterhead '9 AVENUE STUDIOS, 76 FULHAM ROAD, LONDON, S.W.3.'): He hopes to 'be able to accept your invitation to act as Judge in the same section as last year'. Asks for the date. LETTER TWO (autograph note, 23 July 1926, 'Beehive Cottage, | Combs, Chapel en le Frith', one page, quarto): 'I hope this will do?' LETTER THREE (typed, 6 December 1926, one page, quarto, on letterhead of the 'TOOTAL BROADHURST LEE COMPANY LIMITED'): Makes a few suggestions concerning 'the proof from your syllabus'. LETTER FOUR (autograph, 18 April 1936, two pages, 12mo, on letterhead 'POPLAR FARMHOUSE, IKEN, WOODBRIDGE, SUFFOLK'): Supplies information ('from memory') regarding three Tootal Broadhurst & Lee scholarship winners. LETTER FIVE (typed, 15 November [1938], one page, quarto, on letterhead '58, GLEBE PLACE, CHELSEA, S.W.3.'): 'There is a widespread feeling among artists that a commemorative plaque should be placed on the house in Chelsea which Captain Adrian Jones, the sculptor, occupied for a considerable number of years until his death.' Feels that this is a matter in which the R.S.A. should interest itself. LETTER SIX (typed, 17 November 1938, one page, quarto, on Glebe Place letterhead): 'Many thanks for your letter of the 16th. I was in a little doubt as to whether it was you or the L[ondon].C[ounty].C[ouncil]. who dealt with memorial tablets but I thought I would try you first. I have just written to the clerk of the L.C.C., and I hope they will move in the matter.'