you would burn your boats here and all the contacts that this place affords.
With regards to the question of price my own feelings are that you should start off at £8,000 and be prepared to come down reluctantly to £6,500 if need be, but one simply doesnât want the thing stranded on oneâs hands with nobody interested.
However, I think it would be unwise to hurry the matter and please would you not do anything without my being in the picture as it would not make things easy for me here.
Enclosed is a photograph for you to have, but it is essential not to show it to anyone yet.
Looking forward to having your comments.
Regards to Mrs P.,
Yours,
Bruce
To Edward Peregrine
Sothebyâs | 34 & 35 New Bond Street | 19 July [1960]
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Dear E.F.P.,
Very many thanks for your letter. I think that the way is all clear for you to write to Rawlinson 36 and find out if their American client is still interested.
Enclosed is a full and I think complete cataloguing description of St Anthony Abbot which will I hope lend weight to its authenticity.
Should he be no longer interested, do please let me know quickly, because I think that I may be able to arrange something else. If Rawlinson does fail you though, I think we should urge Mrs Gronau into activity first. If they are interested may I please somehow see you with the picture before showing it to them?
I am going to Greece for a month on September 7th which should be marvellous.
Regards to you both, Bruce
In September 1960, following Robert Byronâs traces, he travelled through the Greek islands on his way to Crete. His enthusiasm for Byron was a constant that remained undimmed. Ten years later he talked about the writer to Robin Lane Fox. âNo way did he model himself on Byron, who he described as childish and irresponsible; what he admired was Byronâs ability for brilliant descriptions of objects before him, combined with a slight transporting sense of another world.â
To Charles and Margharita Chatwin
Postcard, Cape Sounion | Temple of Poseidon | Greece | 15 September 1960
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It rained today for the first time this summer. Spent weekend on island of Aegina where I met O Marlburian. Food very good. Xenias Melathron v. expensive and not as good as Tambi, at a third [of the] price. I had no cheque book so please will you pay for table-cloth and Iâll pay you back, B
To Charles and Margharita Chatwin
Postcard, windmills at Rhodes | [September 1960]
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So thatâs what you took a pot at! 37 you naughty fellow! Yacht trip to temple at Lindos with Lord Merthyr (R.C.C.) 38 and British Ambassador + Jill Kannreuther. B
To Charles and Margharita Chatwin
Postcard, Dionysus mosaic | Delos Island | Mykonos | Greece | 19 September [1960]
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Do come here, but for Godâs sake not in the boat 39 . Blows force 8 at least all the time from the North. Last night from Rhodes, asleep on deck when wave came right over me taking with it my hat and a little bag that I bought. Full . Am going back to terra firma and shall go to Crete by AIR. B
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Margharita wrote to Hugh at Marlborough about Chatwinâs postcard from Mykonos. Hugh says: âI appreciated it as part of Bruceâs studied sense of filial duty to educate his parents in all matters Hellenic. Three years before, he had expounded to me, sotto voce, that Charles and Margharita had served more than their fair time as Birmingham worthy-plus-squaw â should widen their horizons, should see Rome, should experience the Lascaux wall paintings, the flamingos of the Camargue and the Glories that were Greece. Bruceâs encouragement worked real wonders upon Charles. That winter, he announced to his disbelieving law partners (and to me) that, although only in his early fifties, he needed to earn less money instead of more, precisely so that he and Margharita could set forth on travels of their own. The outcome was that both parents followed in his footsteps and they
With regards to the question of price my own feelings are that you should start off at £8,000 and be prepared to come down reluctantly to £6,500 if need be, but one simply doesnât want the thing stranded on oneâs hands with nobody interested.
However, I think it would be unwise to hurry the matter and please would you not do anything without my being in the picture as it would not make things easy for me here.
Enclosed is a photograph for you to have, but it is essential not to show it to anyone yet.
Looking forward to having your comments.
Regards to Mrs P.,
Yours,
Bruce
To Edward Peregrine
Sothebyâs | 34 & 35 New Bond Street | 19 July [1960]
Â
Dear E.F.P.,
Very many thanks for your letter. I think that the way is all clear for you to write to Rawlinson 36 and find out if their American client is still interested.
Enclosed is a full and I think complete cataloguing description of St Anthony Abbot which will I hope lend weight to its authenticity.
Should he be no longer interested, do please let me know quickly, because I think that I may be able to arrange something else. If Rawlinson does fail you though, I think we should urge Mrs Gronau into activity first. If they are interested may I please somehow see you with the picture before showing it to them?
I am going to Greece for a month on September 7th which should be marvellous.
Regards to you both, Bruce
In September 1960, following Robert Byronâs traces, he travelled through the Greek islands on his way to Crete. His enthusiasm for Byron was a constant that remained undimmed. Ten years later he talked about the writer to Robin Lane Fox. âNo way did he model himself on Byron, who he described as childish and irresponsible; what he admired was Byronâs ability for brilliant descriptions of objects before him, combined with a slight transporting sense of another world.â
To Charles and Margharita Chatwin
Postcard, Cape Sounion | Temple of Poseidon | Greece | 15 September 1960
Â
It rained today for the first time this summer. Spent weekend on island of Aegina where I met O Marlburian. Food very good. Xenias Melathron v. expensive and not as good as Tambi, at a third [of the] price. I had no cheque book so please will you pay for table-cloth and Iâll pay you back, B
To Charles and Margharita Chatwin
Postcard, windmills at Rhodes | [September 1960]
Â
So thatâs what you took a pot at! 37 you naughty fellow! Yacht trip to temple at Lindos with Lord Merthyr (R.C.C.) 38 and British Ambassador + Jill Kannreuther. B
To Charles and Margharita Chatwin
Postcard, Dionysus mosaic | Delos Island | Mykonos | Greece | 19 September [1960]
Â
Do come here, but for Godâs sake not in the boat 39 . Blows force 8 at least all the time from the North. Last night from Rhodes, asleep on deck when wave came right over me taking with it my hat and a little bag that I bought. Full . Am going back to terra firma and shall go to Crete by AIR. B
Â
Margharita wrote to Hugh at Marlborough about Chatwinâs postcard from Mykonos. Hugh says: âI appreciated it as part of Bruceâs studied sense of filial duty to educate his parents in all matters Hellenic. Three years before, he had expounded to me, sotto voce, that Charles and Margharita had served more than their fair time as Birmingham worthy-plus-squaw â should widen their horizons, should see Rome, should experience the Lascaux wall paintings, the flamingos of the Camargue and the Glories that were Greece. Bruceâs encouragement worked real wonders upon Charles. That winter, he announced to his disbelieving law partners (and to me) that, although only in his early fifties, he needed to earn less money instead of more, precisely so that he and Margharita could set forth on travels of their own. The outcome was that both parents followed in his footsteps and they
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