Two Autograph Letters Signed "H. Thomson" and "Hugh Thomson" to [J.C.] Dollman, artist, discussing golf and illustrating his humour, physical failings and research.

Total 5pp., 8vo, one sl.marked but mainly good condition. [March 23] He commiserates on "domestic troubles" and says what a disaster it would have been if the completion of a picture had been delayed. "You will be sorry to hear that I am confiend to the house with varicose veins in the leg. The trouble has arisen through bicycling, a maniac of the wheel having induced me to scorch over half a county with him. I am consequently obliged to give up the treat I promised myself in seeing your pivture at your studio but I mean to ahe- honour the Academy with a visit . . . and shall enjoy a look at your work there . . . " [12 Feb. 1906] "I think you will find a coach of the period in one of Hogarth's prints, but it is such a long time since I consulted them that I cannot be quite [underlined] sure. The print is not in one of the usual sets (Mariage a la mode or the others) but is about half the size. You are sure to come on it if you go to the Print Room and ask the attendant for Hogarths. / I wish sincerely I had a print or even a jotting myself. I had occasion years ago to draw a coach of the kind but find I cannot trace the pencil jottings which I made, or you should have had it. But you will find it refreshing to look the Hogarths up. There is a sailor clinging to the pyramidal top, if I recollect rightly, rigging would afford a more secure cling. / Like you I don't get as much golf as I should like but one must not repine . . ."