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Beaton/A/A4/39
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GB 275 Beaton/A/A4/39
Title
Letter to his mother
Date(s)
- ca 1947-62 (Creation)
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3 pages paper
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Scope and content
Autograph letter signed to Mummie from the Hotel Sevilla Biltmore, Habana, Cuba. Undated, but after Beaton's move to Reddish House in 1947 and before his mother's death in 1963. Has been here for the weekend, and is in Cuba to photograph the Johnsons, which he is dreading as their apartment is unattractively decorated and badly lit for photography. Evie and Bob are taking him out to dinner with ghastly people, but he will escape the next day to Palm Beach where he will stay with the Winston Guests which will be amusing and relaxing. He flies back to New York on Sunday. They will have to make decisions about staff when he gets home. Eileen has kept him posted about changes at Reddish.