Letter

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Letter from John Brett (1831-1902) [landscape painter] to Mr [H.H.] Hadfield. Brett wishes to know whether the Royal Manchester Institution has recently appointed a new secretary. If the secretary with whom he had an unpleasant correspondence some four years ago is still in office, Brett would feel unable to send any pictures to the Institution's exhibition. "I do remember that the drift of it [the correspondence] was of an unpleasant kind, and such as to preclude my having any intercourse with him for the future, and if this gentleman is still in office, I think it will not be desirable for me to rake up old memories by sending a picture into his dominions."

Dated at: 38 Harley Street, London.

Annotated in pencil, "From H.H. Hadfield to R. Crozier Esq, 1st Sep 1874".