‡DAME LAURA KNIGHT DBE, RA, RWS (1877-1970) GREETING TO STANLEY SCOTT Two, one initialled, inscribed My dear Stanley/ What a glorious/ Day and dated 22 November 1966; the other inscribed MAY 1967 BRING GREAT HAPPINESS TO YOU/ STANLEY/ SCOTT/ from/ LAURA and dated 1966/ 29 Dec, each on headed writing paper (16, Langford Place, London), pen and ink Each 24 x 19cm approx. (2) * Scott was a London businessman with theatrical connections. He began an amiable exchange of letters with Knight in the 1960s and each used playful layouts or demonstrations of calligraphy and cartoonish details. Scott's archive was sold initially at auction in 1993. Curiously, Scott and Knight never met: "It was not necessary or desirable but I loved her."
‡DAME LAURA KNIGHT DBE, RA, RWS (1877-1970) GREETING TO STANLEY SCOTT Two, one initialled, inscribed My dear Stanley/ What a glorious/ Day and dated 22 November 1966; the other inscribed MAY 1967 BRING GREAT HAPPINESS TO YOU/ STANLEY/ SCOTT/ from/ LAURA and dated 1966/ 29 Dec, each on headed writing paper (16, Langford Place, London), pen and ink Each 24 x 19cm approx. (2) * Scott was a London businessman with theatrical connections. He began an amiable exchange of letters with Knight in the 1960s and each used playful layouts or demonstrations of calligraphy and cartoonish details. Scott's archive was sold initially at auction in 1993. Curiously, Scott and Knight never met: "It was not necessary or desirable but I loved her."
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