DLA017-0098  Transcription

WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT,

82, ST. MARTIN’S LANE,LONDON, W.C.2,

18.1.1931

My dear Phillip:

The firm is one in very high repute: Now as to yourself. Again Now as to yourself: I was very sorry to see you looking so seedy: neither you nor I are as young as we were: you with your huge expenditure of nerve energy in your work must go slow if you wish to enjoy health & happiness in your future years whatever their length may be: & believe me if you dont take care they wont be very long: I am so fond of you that I feel I must butt in & talk to you as though you were a brother: for goodness sake take a rest cut work or cut the litirary [sic] work: take a solid 2 months off, amusing yourself in the sun of Spain painting little bits & let the Paris show run itself:

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Unless you rest your work will look tired & weary: I never forget what a Lady Artist in Edwardes Square (where we had a furnished house) said when you did that of Nancy: “Ah thats lovely: he has had a rest: when he is tired his work is not alive as this is:” You don’t see it yourself others do: so pack up do, there’s a good fellow & go off with Lucy:^[1] What a relief it will be to her! You can leave plenty of material behind for your book^[2] & I’ve done work like that before & I will help Miss Roberts to get it in order. Noone will know I’ve had a finger in the pie: It will be all yours: Baldry^[3] I know is urgent that you take a rest Lucy is yearning for you to do it: she know not that I write: Just let it be announced that acting on medical advice you are resting

Yours ever affectionately & worriedly.

Dick

Editorial Note:

Judge Richard Whitbourn Turner (1867-1932), Secretary to the Lord Chief Justice, Rufus Isaacs, Earl of Reading (1860-1935) from 1915 to 1919; County Court Judge between 1919 and 1928; appointed to the Certificate of Naturalization (Revocation) Committee in 1924; for further biographical details, see [11385]. 

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16/01/2018