Aldwinckle, Eric, Letter, [1 December 1944]

Letter, Eric Aldwinckle.
Description: 
Letter to Harry Somers

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Case Study: 
Creative Dialogue Across the Ocean: Eric Aldwinckle’s Letters to Harry Somers
Creator: 
Aldwinckle, Eric
Source: 
letter
Date: 
[1 December 1944]
Place: RCAF Headquarters, London
Collection/Fonds: 
Contributer: 
McMaster University Libraries
Rights: 
"Courtesy of Margaret Bridgman." McMaster University owns the rights to the archival copy of the digital image in TIFF format.

Identifier: 
00001609
Language: 
eng
Type: 
image
Format: 
jpg
Transcript: 

Dear Harry,
Your week's leave must have been a busy one judging by your Mother's description of your work. I am so glad for you that Dr Walters is interested and I feel I can better tell you now the amusing effort I made to interest the Royal College of Music here, in your Quartet hoping to have some first class students play it and enjoy studying it and so I could hear it. But Sir Roger Dyson said "no dice son" and I had the pain of controlling myself so that I looked like a reasonable human being while he issued forth more blah about music than I thought was possible from any intelligent man, even showing me four chords on the piano which could not be surpassed in beauty, but dear Sir Roger has no doubt led a good life and I didn't feel that anything I could say (after saying a great many intelligent things in your defence) which would show him the light and so I said Good day and left him to go puddling along with his musical knitting. Then I went to the Society (pardon me) The Royal Society of Portrait Perpetrators painters and felt quite sick at the stomach, and went to my room in South Ken feeling that the English arts were in a mess, and that only a very few people had any ideals. I wonder how you are faring and what is to happen. You do not write and share your thoughts when you are sad but I understand