Eight Typed Letters Signed, two Autograph Letters Signed, two Typed Notes Signed and one Autograph Note Signed variously to Sir Henry Trueman Wood and George Kenneth Menzies, Secretaries, Royal Society of Arts.

Architectural historian and one of the editors of 'Country Life' (1876-1930). The thirteen items are in good condition, although grubby and with occasional creasing. Two items have minor rust staining from paperclips to corners. All but one item one page, quarto. Often docketed or bearing the R.S.A. stamp. Primarily concerned with lectures at the R.S.A. by Weaver, and their proofs in the Society's journal. The best letter is the last (autograph, 2 pages, quarto, 5 April 1925): 'The real trouble is (this is of course privately to you) that so many of your committees are sworn never to allow a touch of modern design to be seen - The only hope is that when the students have won scholarships on such gruesome futilities as re-designing William & Mary & Queen Anne furniture they may go abroad & so forget it. [...] I think we are already wonderful at faking past centuries - I wonder what Praxiteles would have said if the manufacturers of Athens had offered prizes for the best statue in the manner of the Delphi Charioteer? Made someone drink hemlock, I hope.' Letter of 11 February 1916: '[...] a few years ago you kindly asked me to give a couple of Cantor lectures on English leadwork. I have lately been giving a good deal of time to the very urgent question of the design of memorials and monuments, on which I have recently written a book [...]'. Letter of 29 November 1916: 'I shall be delighted to lecture for you in March on Memorials and Monuments. The subject is a very big one, and might very well be divided into three, as follows: [...]'. Letter of 23 June 1917: His 'new work is veryy onerous' so he must decline serving 'as one of the judges of the Owen Jones prizes'. Letter of 27 February 1918: 'whether the colossal Christ commemorated peace after an actual war between Chili [sic] and the Argentine Republic, or only an averted war, is hardly of sufficient importance to justify a belated note in your Journal'.