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Ewan Phillips, recipient: Dorothy Phillips

Letter from Ewan Phillips to Dorothy and Godfrey Phillips

25 October 1945

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Created by
Ewan Phillips
Recipient
Dorothy Phillips
Title
Letter from Ewan Phillips to Dorothy and Godfrey Phillips
Date
25 October 1945
Description
Letter written from HQ East Africa Command in Nairobi, Kenya, discussing Phillips's hesitance to take a job 'salvaging works of art in Germany': 'the War Office (Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Branch of Civil Affairs) have taken matters into their own hands and started sending signals applying for me'.
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by the executors of Ewan Phillips, 1996.
Reference
TGA 9610/1/1/26/7

Archive context

  • Personal papers of Ewan Phillips TGA 9610 (237)
    • Correspondence TGA 9610/1 (46)
      • General correspondence: 1920s-1940s TGA 9610/1/1 (14)
        • Correspondence between Dorothy and Ewan Phillips TGA 9610/1/1/26 (1)
          • Letter from Ewan Phillips to Dorothy and Godfrey Phillips TGA 9610/1/1/26/7
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