WCP6391

Letter (WCP6391.7389)

[1]1

ORIENTAL ART,

Editor: William Cohn, M.A.

15 Park Town

Oxford

11th Nov[ember]. 1949

W. G. Wallace2 Esq[uire].,

61, East Avenue,

Bournemouth.

Dear Mr. Wallace,

Your carving of soap-stone was, of course, made somewhere in China. I cannot really answer your question without having seen the work, but I think that it is almost certain that it was pretty new when your father bought it. Such carvings

P[lease]. T[urn]. O[ver].

[2] were being made mostly by for3 foreigners in the 19th century and are being made even today.

Yours faithfully | William Cohn4 [signature]

1
The letter is typewritten. The page is numbered [WP16/1/48] in pencil in the top RH corner. The recipient has written "Ack[knowledge]d. Nov[ember] 14" in ink in the bottom RH corner.
2
Wallace, William Greenell (1871-1951) Electrical engineer, second son and third child of ARW.
3
Handwritten correction, "by" overwritten by "for".
4
Cohn, William (1880-1961) German-British art historian and Sinologist. He founded Oriental Art magazine in 1947. The quarterly was associated with Asian Art presently in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford (where he was an advisor) and was the first journal to pioneer publishing on research and discoveries in Asian art history.

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Transcribed by O'Dell, Sandra [2018-08-15]

Please cite as “WCP6391,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 30 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP6391