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Date(s)
- [1904]-1958 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
69 ff.
Guarded and filed at NLW.
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Scope and content
Some fifty letters and postcards, [1904]-1958, from Augustus John to various correspondents, containing mainly personal news.
The correspondents include Lady Margot Asquith, [?1925]-1929 (ff. 1-3), Simon Asquith, [1948]-1958 (ff. 4-19), Nicandra McCarthy (later Hood), 1946-1953 (ff. 21-34 verso), Dorelia McNeill, [July 1904]-1923 (ff. 35-40), John Quinn, [1909]-1910 (ff. 41-48), Margaret Sampson, [March 1907] (ff. 49-50), and Stuart Wilson, [1949]-[?1958] (ff. 53-67). The volume contains poetry by John, [1904]-[1930s] (ff. 36-39 verso, 51, 68-69), including a ballad and sonnets addressed to Dorelia, [July 1904] (ff. 36-38). There are references to a visit, with John Sampson, to the family of Matthew Wood, the Welsh Gypsy (ff. 41 verso-44 verso), and to the death of Ida John (ff. 49 verso-50). For extracts from three of the letters (ff. 35-36, 42-43, 49-50) see Michael Holroyd, Augustus John (London, 1996), pp. 151, 158, 231, 233, 289-290.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by recipient at NLW.
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Language and script notes
English, some Romani.
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Tate Gallery Archive (TAM 21C microfiche);
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Note
Title based on contents.
Note
Letter to Simon Asquith, 1 December [1948] (f. 19), misplaced; should be between ff. 4 and 5.
Note
Preferred citation: NLW MS 23851D.
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- John, Augustus, 1878-1961 -- Correspondence (Subject)
- Sampson, John, 1862-1931. (Subject)
- Wood, Matthew, d. 1929. (Subject)
- Nettleship, Ida -- Death and burial (Subject)
- Asquith, Margot, 1864-1945. (Subject)
- Asquith, Simon, 1919-1973. (Subject)
- McCarthy, Nicandra. (Subject)
- Quinn, John, 1870-1924. (Subject)
- Sampson, Margaret, 1871-1947 (Subject)
- Wilson, Stuart, of Fordingbridge. (Subject)
- McNeill, Dorelia, 1881-1969 (Subject)