[Sir John Rothenstein, art historian and Director of the Tate Gallery, London.] Autograph Letter Signed to Philip Dosse, publisher of ‘Art and Artists’, regarding difficulties in his reviewing Holroyd and Easton’s books on Augustus John.

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Philip Dosse was proprietor of Hansom Books, publisher of a stable of seven arts magazines including Books and Bookmen and Plays and Players. See ‘Death of a Bookman’ by the novelist Sally Emerson (editor of ‘Books and Bookmen’ at the time of Dosse’s suicide), in Standpoint magazine, October 2018. The present item is 2pp, 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once for postage. Signed ‘John Rothenstein’. He believes that Dosse asked him ‘to review the John books’ (Michael Holroyd’s biography of Augustus John, and his book with Malcolm Easton on John’s art) for Art and Artists. ‘I don’t think I’m dreaming as have some copies wh. you sent me at the time. I believe I explained that exceptional demands would make it difficult & I’ve also received an intimation that one of the Sunday papers is planning to invite me to do a special feature on the two books, but I’m not at all sure whether I shall be able to accept.’ Dosse is ‘quite right in supposing that the Easton volume will be by no means complete’.