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- John Banting 1902–1971
- Recipient
- John Humphrey Spender 1910–2005
- Title
- Letter from John Banting to Humphrey Spender
- Date
- [c.1930s]
- Description
- In this letter, John Banting offers the contact details for a 'hair grower', and illustrates the results on a friend of his with an annotated cartoon sketch on the other side of the letter, depicting a man holding a cigarette in one hand and a glass of wine, with 'bushy white hair', 'stays', 'padded chest and shoulders' and 'high "cuban" heels'. In a postscript he says that he would very much like to meet 'Dereck [sic] Kahn' again.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- This collection was presented to the Tate Archive by Humphrey Spender in 1997.
- Reference
- TGA 9717/1/23
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