- 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, Eve Schwitters, recipients: Kurt Schwitters, Edith “Wanty” Thomas Letter from Ernst Schwitters to Kurt Schwitters and Edith Thomas (‘Wanty’) about his holiday, his father’s health and his wish for his father to move to Lysaker and Bergmann
21 September 1947 -
Eve Schwitters, recipients: Margaret Miller, Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA) Letter from Eve Schwitters to Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art
12 February 1949
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