| Collection Name | Spencer, Stanley |
| RefNo | TGA 733/1/1508-1571 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Fifty letters, two postcards, Christmas card and telegram from Joy Smith, Jill Head House, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, to Stanley Spencer, and nine replies (some copies) from Stanley Spencer, Cliveden View, Cookham Rise. |
| Date | July 1956-August 1959 |
| Extent | 145 pieces and 4 cards |
| Access Status | RESTRICTED |
| Access Conditions | Access permitted only with prior consent from the family and estate of Stanley Spencer. |
| Description | The letters largely concern Smith family news, arrangements for visits by or to Spencer, family portraits, and other Spencer drawings acquired by Joy Smith. Also reference to Spencer's health and colostomy operation; his painting and portrait by Unity Spencer (TGA 733/1/1522); portraits of the Morrell family; and Spencer's objection to Christopher Hassell publishing quotes from Spencer's letters to Eddie Marsh regarding an episode between Spencer and Mark Gertler and the 'Gertler' story (TGA 733/1/1538-9). TGA 733/1/1518 has a page missing. |
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