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Autograph letter

Nevinson, Christopher Richard Wynne

Hampstead. 1916
A wartime letter from the artist C. R. W. Nevinson to an anonymous publisher.

The letter concludes '....at present I am overwhelmed with work.'

A transcript is available on request.
Thin sheet of paper. (200 x 250 mm).
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