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- Title
- Handwritten letter from Edith Thomas (‘Wantee’) to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, discussing Kurt Schwitters death
- Date
- Date not known
- Description
- Discusses Ernst Schwitters' trip to the UK to see his Father before he died, use of money from the Museum of Modern Art to pay for Kurt Schwitters' funeral and the future of the barn Schwitters was leasing as a facility for his art work.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented by Edith Thomas's son, Geoff Thomas, in 1995.
- Reference
- TGA 9510/3/1/7
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