[Sir Aston Webb, RA, Buckingham Palace, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Admiralty Arch.] Autograph Letter Signed Aston Webb .

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged, with small and slightly rusted staple holes to one corner. Folded once. Addressed to ‘My dear [Gern?] King / A. G. B. I’ (i.e. the Artists’ General Benevolent Institution) and signed ‘Aston Webb / Presd. A G B I -’. He is writing at the request of ‘the Council’, ‘to express to you on their behalf & my own our sincere regret at your resignation from our Council’. Since he has ‘attended so regularly and helped so sympathetically in the work that we shall all miss you very much and look forward to the day when you feel able to the [sic] come back to us and with this in View the Council have decided not to fill up the vacancy with the hope that we shall soon see you amongst us again when you may be sure of a warm welcome’.