NASH (John, 1893-1977, R.A., Painter, War Artist, Illustrator and Engraver)

Autograph Letter Signed to Anthony BERTRAM (1897-1978, writer on Art and Travel, biographer, 1955, of John Nash's brother Paul, 1889-1946), saying he has "heard nothing from Margaret" (née Odeh, d. 1960, Paul's widow living in Oxford) "for some time now ... I may be able to help in the matter of events - on dates I am not so good but my wife is strong on that point!", he thinks "a talk would be much more satisfactory than writing lists of queries", and suggests Bertram come "for a night or so ... I have to go to London every Thursday afternoon or evening for my teaching day at the Royal College of Art on Friday ... It would be pleasant ... to renew acquaintance & do the work in comfort. It's a bit rough here - the old Essex farmhouse & some people think East Anglia cold. Could you ring up one evening in the cheap time?", 2 sides 8vo., Bottengoms Farm, Wormingford, Essex, no date but autumn

Anthony Bertram was in the Infantry in WW1 and in MI6 during WW2. As early as 1923 he had written a short life of Paul for the series 'Contemporary British Artists' and was now starting a full length biography. He and his wife Barbara, 1906-2004 [not John's sister], married in 1929, and leased Bignor Manor, near Petworth. There in WW2 Barbara was housemother to resistance fighters on their way back to France.

Item Date:  1950

Stock No:  54298     

                


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