- Created by
- Unknown person(s)
- Title
- Letter from Edith Thomas (‘Wantee’) to Margaret Miller, concerning Kurt Schwitters’ funeral and costs
- Date
- Date not known
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Edith Thomas's son, Geoff Thomas, in 1995.
- Reference
- TGA 9510/3/1/12
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Ernst Schwitters, recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Ernst Schwitters to Edith Thomas (‘Wanty’)
9 December 1947
Margaret Miller, recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Edith Thomas about Schwitters’ funeral expenses
28 January 1948
Unknown person(s) Handwritten letter from Edith Thomas (‘Wantee’) to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, discussing Kurt Schwitters death
date not known
Edith “Wanty” Thomas, recipient: Ernst Schwitters Letter to Ernst Schwitters from Edith Thomas
1 February 1948
Edith “Wanty” Thomas, recipient: Ernst Schwitters Letter to Ernst Schwitters from Edith Thomas (‘Wanty’) about Kurt Schwitters’ affairs following his death
4 May [1948]
George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK) Letters from Geo. Gatey & Son to the Museum of Modern Art and Edith Thomas about the sale of Schwitters’ work
16 March 1948
Unknown person(s) Lease between Harry Pierce and Kurt Schwitters
date not known
Collection owner: Kurt Schwitters Letter to Geo. Gatey & Son from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art, forwarded on to Edith Thomas and Ernst Schwitters
22 December 1948–8 January 1949
George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK), recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Geo. Gatey & Son to Edith Thomas
14 February 1949
Ernst Schwitters, recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Photocopy of a letter sent from Ernst Schwitters to Edith Thomas (‘Wanty’)
12 February 1949
Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Edith Thomas about Schwitters’ work and funding
1 April 1948
Harold Handley, George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK), recipient: Mrs G. W. Horner Letter from Harold Handley at Geo. Gatey & Son to Mrs Horner about her unfinished portrait by Kurt Schwitters
12 January 1948
Collection owner: Kurt Schwitters Letter to Edith Thomas from Geo. Gatey & Son with enclosed letter from the Museum of Modern Art about the transport of Schwitters’ collages
21–26 April 1949
George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK), recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Geo. Gatey & Son to Edith Thomas regarding the transport of Schwitters’ work
13 October 1949
Ernst Schwitters, recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Ernst Schwitters to Edith Thomas (‘Wanty’) regarding the sale, preservation and inheritance of Kurt Schwitters’ work
12 February 1949
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