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Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son with letter from Margaret to Eve Schwitters enclosed

6 October 1949

Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son

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Margaret Miller Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA)
Recipient
George Gatey & Son Solicitors (Windermere, UK)
Date
6 October 1949
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Created by
Margaret Miller
Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA)
Title
Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son with letter from Margaret to Eve Schwitters enclosed
Date
6 October 1949
Description
Letters discussing instructions to the museum for the transport of Schwitters' work.
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented by Edith Thomas's son, Geoff Thomas, in 1995.
Reference
TGA 9510/3/1/46
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Archive context

  • Material relating to Kurt Schwitters compiled by his English companion, Mrs Edith ‘Wantee’ Thomas mostly after the artist’s death in 1948 TGA 9510 (139)
    • Correspondence and documents relating to the Ernst Schwitters v Edith Thomas court case, 1963 TGA 9510/3 (100)
      • Correspondence and documents, numbered sequentially, from various correspondents relating to Kurt Schwitters and his works TGA 9510/3/1 (68)
        • Letter from Margaret Miller at the Museum of Modern Art to Geo. Gatey & Son with letter from Margaret to Eve Schwitters enclosed TGA 9510/3/1/46
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