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Sir Cedric Morris, Bt, recipient: Arthur Lett-Haines

Letter from Cedric Morris to Arthur Lett-Haines

[3 February 1951]

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Sir Cedric Morris, Bt 1889–1982
Recipient
Arthur Lett-Haines 1894–1978
Date
[3 February 1951]
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Created by
Sir Cedric Morris, Bt 1889–1982
Recipient
Arthur Lett-Haines 1894–1978
Title
Letter from Cedric Morris to Arthur Lett-Haines
Date
[3 February 1951]
Description
Addressed Yew Tree Cottage, [Henley] (his mother's home). The letter concerns general news, Ralph [Banbury] and his dissatisfaction with teaching, 'I nearly died of boredom those smug, genteel mediocrities...I don't think I can teach them anything - I have no interest in what they want to learn'.
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to the Tate Archive by Ronald Blythe, one of Morris's executors, in 1983.
Reference
TGA 8317/1/4/135
London Group British Surrealism Surrealism

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  • Personal papers of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines TGA 8317 (238)
    • Correspondence to and from Cedric Morris TGA 8317/1 (238)
      • Correspondence between Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines TGA 8317/1/4 (238)
        • Letter from Cedric Morris to Arthur Lett-Haines TGA 8317/1/4/135
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