Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Taking a respite from the Duveen and revisiting Spalding's Roger Fry. I should have written this book since I was on the track in the 60s andknew Pamela and Micu Diamand (stayed at Bourchernes many times). Why did I not? The Acknowledgments reads like a list of old memories: I met and talked with Forster, Marie Mauron, Philip Troutman, Arthur Waley's widow (now that's a story--her house had just been ransacked and the Waley papers later turned up at Rutgers; she blamed it on a dealer called Peter Eaton), charming rogue Denys Sutton of course (I gave him a letter from 1916 fro RF to include in his collection) and so on. More later.