Transcript: Writing about his paints Letter
Writing about his paints
Limmerslease The parcel or parcels will have to go by train I expect
June 4th 1907 to Guilford
My Dear Mother,
I am down here and as Mrs Watts is putting off the motor tour for the present she says that I can stay as long as I like and wants me to do a work here. So please send my oil and watercolour brushes also my Sabbath breaker and the other box of waterc. tubes and my oil palette (big one) and the following tubes of oil.
Yellow ochre, Flake white, Rose Madder, Cadmium, Rose Doree, Black,
Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Cobalt Blue, Fr Ultramarine, Terre Vert, Viridian,
Lemon Yellow, Vermillion, Raw Umber
(Mrs Hatton had ticked each colour as she searched for it)
Almost find amongst the Madderton lot but lemon yellow, Rose Doree and Cadmium and Cobalt Blue are in the old box I think. I think this is the whole list. If you notice anything else please send it. I shan’t want those old oil brushes tied together with string but if there are any decent sables amongst them you might send them. also send a couple of sheets of pencil paper and couple (ditto) watercolour not too rough if there is any. Mrs W. doesn’t think much of the Arbroath teaching as it doesn’t cultivate the taste for the beautiful etc. also one doesn’t get enough time for studying sufficiently carefully. So I am going to put myself under her wing for a few days and see what happens. Bye the way please send the roll of new canvas up in the attic. Mrs W has nothing in the ay of oils to lend me except easels. She is going to show me all about gesso. She likes design and I am going to do a little modelling until all this stuff arrives. Had a very pleasant time in Oxford. Prof. Thomson thought that Harcourt’s method had its good points. Viz. it teaches you match tone etc swiftly and accurately but drawing and painting doesn’t end there!!
Hope you are vegetating and resting. With love.
Brian.
Friday
Just got your letter. Bowen is coming next Monday afternoon. The Queen went past (in train) this afternoon from Aberdeen to Dundee en route for Denmark. The Royal Yacht is steaming away in the bay now, escorted by a gunboat. Every telescope in Arbroath is doing its little best! No news. The weather is still very grey and doubtful. We are thinking of having a landscape week next week if weather permits. Have been down to the printing office to see about calendars. Miss M Still away.
Love Brian
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