Woolner, Thomas, 1825-1892, Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis, 1875 July 18
- Call Number:
- MSS 53
- Holdings:
- [Request]
- Creator:
- Woolner, Thomas, 1825-1892
- Title(s):
- Thomas Woolner letter to John Frederick Lewis
- Date:
- 1875 July 18
- Classification:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Part of Collection:
- Box 1, folder 14
- Provenance:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Conditions Governing Access:
- The materials are open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- The collection is the physical property of the Yale Center for British Art. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Scope and Content:
- "July 18 '75. My dear Lewis, I met [Gustave?] Pope at the Mansion House last night and was pained to hear that you were lain up unwell again. I was going to ask if I might run down again before the summer was over to look at your sketches, but now I must wait till you are strong enough again to see anyone. In fact I did not feel sure that a letter would not bother you till Pope said it would rather amuse than otherwise. I cannot tell you the pleasure it is to us to remember the delightful afternoon at your house; we feel as if we had for awhile lived the life of the Arabian Nights, with all its joys and without any of its evil. As generous souls rejoice in the joy they give I am sure that Mrs Lewis and you must have a rich store of enjoyment. I should so much have liked to show you a statue I am doing of Sir Cowasjee Jehangeer, a rich Parsee of Bombay; for while I work at it I think of your work and wonder if you would think I had put the true Oriental character into his attitude and the expression of his face. I should much like to exhibit it next year but my Committee wish it in Bombay before the Prince arrives in November, so that, as usual, I am cheated of my Exhibition right. The President seemed to have revived again last evening, for tho he looked weak compared with a few years back, still he spoke with some amount of firmness and was very pleasant in his manner and cheerful. My wife desires her love to Mrs Lewis and you and is very anxious for comforting news of you. It is this horrid wet weather that has brought you down, for all sensitive nervous natures are more beaten by damp than by any other causes. - Ever truly yours, T. Woolner."
- Additional Notes:
- With blind-embossed letterhead: 29, Welbeck Street. W.
- Physical Description:
- 1 folded sheet (4 pages) : autograph letter, signed ; 18 x 23 cm, folded to 18 x 12 cm
- Genre:
- Correspondence and Exhibitions
- Subject Terms:
- AntiquitiesArtOrientalismPaintersPaintingPhotographyPricesSculptorsSculpture
- Associated Places:
- EgyptFranceGreat BritainHayes (Bromley, London, England)Paris
- Associated People/Groups:
- Jehanghier, Cowasjee Readymoney, 1812-1878Lewis, John Frederick, 1804-1876Pope, G. (Gustave)Woolner, Thomas, 1825-1892
- Finding Aid Title:
- Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis
- Collection PDF:
- https://ead-pdfs.library.yale.edu/10701.pdf
- Archival Object:
- https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629905
- Metadata Cloud URL:
- https://metadata-api.library.yale.edu/metadatacloud/api/aspace/repositories/3/archival_objects/2629905?mediaType=json&include-notes=1&include-all-subjects=1