1991.1016.301

W.R. Lethaby (architect)

Letter to Miss Walker from W. R. Lethaby dated 24th March 1926. Found inserted in the book, Architecture, Nature and Magic by Lethaby, W.R., when acquired by the museum, shelf T21 . Part of the Emery Walker Library.

London

1926-03-24 - 1926-03-24 1926 - 1926

Arts & Crafts

Letter from W. R. Lethaby to Miss (Dorothy) Walker dated 24th March 1926. Found in ‘Architecture, Nature and Magic’ by Lethaby. 111 Inverness Terrace W [2] Mar 24 1926 My dear Miss Walker Thank you ever so much for your letter & the enclosures which I return. How difficult things be! I had sent on your E.W’s[i] letter to Mr. Ricardo asking him also to consider the secretaryship and I did not know any arrangements had been made. Of course they acted for what they thought would be the best, just as I did about the added names to the list of people to be invited but things will happen so awkwardly! If you could have confirmed in the old way: that is if the work had not proved so impossibly hard: that is what I should have liked. After all we can never thank you enough for what you have done. [Miss Rope/Rose], I am quite touched, I wish she wouldn’t; or I shd be delighted if we could pull put her on committee as E. W. suggests. About Mr. Soper my feeling is that we hardly ought to accept his gift. Please thank your father for his letter. Mrs [Abbey] did call and talk about the scheme, I am rather too old for hopes & doubt if I ought to try to go [in] body God bless you. Yours sincerely W R Lethaby[ii] [Footnotes: [i]E W is Emery Walker. [ii] William Lethaby (1857 - 1931), architect and architectural historian. CAW