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- 12 Apr 1907 (Creation)
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Lewes Ho[use], Lewes. - Has been to Paris about a Renoir ["Madame Charpentier et ses enfants"] which he has succeeded in purchasing for the [Metropolitan] Museum, which 'is quite secret'. This is the only time he has left Helen, who 'wants someone to walk with her all day', but hopes to get away for a few days and to 'look at the various houses'. Their own landlord is to turn them out at Christmas so they must find something, and it is 'evident that H[elen] ought to be in the country'. Encourages Bob to read Ferrero's "La Grandeur et Décadence du Rome", though he has the London Library's copy at the moment. Adds in a postscript that he is up for election at the Reform Club on 18 Apr; asks Bob to mention this to his father.
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Extract appears in Fry, R., & Sutton, D. (1972), Letters of Roger Fry / edited with an introduction by Denys Sutton. London: Chatto and Windus, Vol 1, p 284.
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Pencil annotation numbering the letter '87'.
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- Fry, Roger Eliot (1866-1934), art historian, critic, and painter (Subject)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (Subject)
- Fry, Helen (1864-1937), artist (Subject)
- Ferrero, Guglielmo (1871-1942) historian, journalist and novelist (Subject)
- London Library (Subject)
- Reform Club (Subject)
- Trevelyan, Sir George Otto (1838-1928), 2nd Baronet, statesman and historian (Subject)