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Ewan Phillips, recipient: Betsy Phillips

Letter from Ewan Phillips to Betsy Phillips

28 August 1939

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Created by
Ewan Phillips
Recipient
Betsy Phillips
Title
Letter from Ewan Phillips to Betsy Phillips
Date
28 August 1939
Description
Letter describing preparations for war in London, including Phillips's work at the National Gallery 'carting pictures about with [William Pettigrew] Gibson and William Coldstream and Tomás Harris'.
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by the executors of Ewan Phillips, 1996.
Reference
TGA 9610/1/1/25/1

Archive context

  • Personal papers of Ewan Phillips TGA 9610 (237)
    • Correspondence TGA 9610/1 (46)
      • General correspondence: 1920s-1940s TGA 9610/1/1 (14)
        • Letters from Ewan Phillips to Betsy Phillips TGA 9610/1/1/25 (3)
          • Letter from Ewan Phillips to Betsy Phillips TGA 9610/1/1/25/1
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