- Created by
- Ernst Schwitters 1918–1996
- Recipient
- Edith “Wanty” Thomas 1915–1991
- Title
- Letter to Edith Thomas (‘Wanty’) from Ernst Schwitters
- Date
- 7 February 1948
- Description
- Letter concerning the money left behind by Kurt Schwitters and the storage of his pictures and sculptures.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Edith Thomas's son, Geoff Thomas, in 1995.
- Reference
- TGA 9510/3/1/14
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Ernst Schwitters, recipient: Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Ernst Schwitters to Edith Thomas (‘Wanty’) about his father’s health and his wish to travel to the UK to see him
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