Transcript: Etchings Letter
Etchings
Arbroath
Spittly
Nov 25th ‘06
My dear Mother,
I am afraid I didn’t write you a very long letter yesterday, but I had only a couple of minutes before starting for the train. However on arriving at the station, we found that the Dundee hockey match was off, so we just had to crawl back to Spittly again, and I never saw Harry Lander after all. I wrote to Uncle Charlie the other day + had a shot at Mrs. Watt’s but failed!!
My favourite horse is out on hire for goodness knows how long, much to my disgust, so if I want any more rides I shall have to put up with the cab nags again. There’s absolutely nothing to say! I have done an etching a print of which I will enclose. I can get better prints than this tho’. This is just a proof. Will you criticise it? The horseman is supposed to be looking at a flock of wild geese. I have been mucking away at the gesso design. But I don’t think I’ve managed the lighting properly. I am going to consult Harcourt as soon as he comes in. The costume list has come but it is just a list of characters and colour of costumes, no prices attached!! There is a very good hat here so all I want is a blue smock and neckerchief. There are also some old breeches here. I have just been talking to the Gov. about the design + he agrees with me that the lighting is not good so I shall have to go on mucking it about a bit more. We are having a figure model tomorrow again, it will be a pleasant change after the sickening old men’s heads that we do week after week, just great furry lumps of grey beard with a cherry end of a nose sticking in the midst thereof. As per sketch. Nothing more to say. It is a lovely moonlight night. I have just been along the seashore.
Much love,
Brain.
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