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- John Banting 1902–1971
- Recipient
- Margaret Low died 1945
- Title
- Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender and Margaret Low
- Date
- [c.1930s]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- This collection was presented to the Tate Archive by Humphrey Spender in 1997.
- Reference
- TGA 9717/1/20
Description
In this letter, which starts, 'Hydi - Hum & Loll', Banting mentions he has just been listening to a 'Jam Session' by [jazz musicians] Jack and Charlie Teagarden. He continues by saying that he has been keeping his mother company while his father is in hospital. He also says that he has read 'Costa's review' [? Costa Achillopoulo] and comments on his own opinion of the 'bourgois' character of the reviewer. He also comments unfavourably about a recent play 'The Dog beneath the Skin' [by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood], 'if they had read more tripe (N. Coward for example) they would have avoided making almost the same cracking unobserving back chat'.