BRACERS Record Detail for 135543
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BR is grateful for the gift of a Sung bowl and maintains that Chinese culture is being ruined by Western contact. He identifies Carl Johan Sonning as founder of the Sonning Prize (which BR received recently).
Transcription provided by Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.
BR TO AMETHE VON ZEPPELIN, 18 JUNE 1960
BRACERS 135543. TLS. McMaster
Transcribed by Nicholas Marlowe. Proofread by K. Blackwell
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Plas Penrhyn.
Penrhyndeudraeth.
Merioneth.
18 June, 1960.
Dear Amethe,
My warm thanks for the lovely photographic representations of Chinese landscape paintings. I do admire you for having set to work to learn the technique of Chinese landscape painting and of Persian miniature painting. You are altogether too kind in promising us your last Chinese treasure, the Sung bowl which you mention. Certainly Edith and I will appreciate it and you will have from us immense gratitude. I had a great sympathy for what was traditional in China, but culturally China was already being ruined by contact with the West.
Sonning was a business man who, I suppose, wished to follow the example of Nobel as far as his funds permitted. We hope that you and Michelangelo are getting better now that it is summer, and we both send our love.
Yours ever,
B.R.
