| Description | The letters mainly concern Spencer's sketches and ideas for paintings, with details of: the composition and analogies in some Regatta paintings (TGA 733/1/1249); drawings of 'The Last Day', a cross surrounded by prostrate elders, the burial of martyrs/heroes, miners and angels (for Llandaff Cathedral?) and marriage of Cana (TGA 733/1/1251); Spencer's opinion on a Clifford Box anthology, a Frances Jackson book and the Llandaff Cathedral project (TGA 733/1/1250); and his trips to Ireland (TGA 733/1/1252) and China (TGA 733/1/1253). Includes carbons for p.8-9 of TGA 733/1/1251 and page a of TGA 733/1/1255. TGA 733/1/1249 is a copy of TGA 733/1/1260. |