[Sir Frank Short, President of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers.] Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Gosselin’, describing changes to his ‘old Studio’.

Author: 
Sir Frank Short [Sir Francis Job Short] (1857-1945), RA, printmaker and teacher of printmaking, President of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, 1910-1938
Publication details: 
2 April 1892. On letterhead of Wentworth Studios, Manresa Road, Kings Road, S.W.
£45.00
SKU: 24109

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged and creased. Signed ‘Frank Short’. The salutation is unclear: it appears to be to ‘Dear Mist Gosselin’, but it could be ‘Mirst’ or ‘Urist’ Gosselin. He thanks him for his kind note, ‘but it wasn’t really of any importance about that bell. Don’t trouble any more about it as far as I am concered. It only wants a very tiny bell and I can easily put one up myself some day.’ When Gosselin is ‘round our way’ he invites him to ‘look in and see your old Studio: but I fear it will rather shock you - all its daintiness gone, and all that remains, a grim workshop - but very useful & convenient withal’. He ends with sympathy for Gosselin’s indisposition: ‘it is not very healthy weather - I’ve got a wretched cold’.