1991.1016.284.3

George Heywood Maunoir Sumner (author)

Letter from Heywood Sumner to Emery Walker, dated 16th November 1927 (1991.1016.284.3.a) plus original envelope (1991.1016.284.3..b), readdressed from Daneway House to 7 Hammersmith Terrace. Found inserted in the book, Local Papers by Sumner, Heywood, when acquired by the museum, shelf R49 (F) . Part of the Emery Walker Library.

Fordingbridge

1927-11-16 - 1927-11-16

Arts & Crafts

Letter from Heywood Sumner to Emery Walker dated 16th November 1927. Found in ‘Local Papers re Hampshire, Dorset and Wilts. Etc.’ by Heywood Sumner. CUCKOO HILL, SOUTH GORLEY, FORDINGBRIDGE. My dear Walker, I am glad to receive your kind welcome to my book, & to feel that it is connected with such far-back relations. Years ago we crudely forgathered – you in a brown velveteen coat, & (I think) a red tie – The only detail of my then costume that I remember is a brown ‘wide-awake’. I also remember the block printing interlude to wh: you refer, in which (I expect) I was cocksure & presumptuous – as the young are - & probably asserted the right thing in the wrong way – but you have kindly remembered the right & forgotten the wrong. My eye! What a beautiful house – Daneway House. Your photos are a joy. We, here, have only sandstone, heathstone, as a local building stone, & accor (barring flint), & accordingly lack fine examples of well-to-do men’s homes in Medieval times: of which you in the Cotswolds have such fine examples. When next I have the now rare occasion to come to town for the day – I shall warn you beforehand, & shall hope then to accept your kind invitation to luncheon, & palaver. I am yrs Ever Heywood Sumner[i]. Novr 16. 1927 An envelope accompanies this letter and is addressed firstly to: Emery Walker Esqr F.S.A. Daneway House By Cirencester The envelope has been re-addressed to: 7, Hammersmith Terrace London [Footnote: [i] George Heywood Maunoir Sumner (1853 – 1940), painter, illustrator and craftsman associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement. CAW]