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Title	Calligraphic headed letter to Dora and Eve MacInnes
Collection	Crafts Study Centre
Calligrapher	Edward Johnston
Description	Calligraphic headed letter to Dora and Eve MacInnes, brown ink on paper.
Id Number Current Accession	C.77.27
Subject	calligraphy, calligraphic letter, writing
Measurements	27 x 22.4 centimetres
Material	ink on paper
Ink	brown
History	Presented by Irene Wellington, and apparently acquired by her at The Petersfield Bookshop. Trials for the heading appear on C.86.117.ii, C.86.117.vii, and C.86.117.ix-xi. Other trials are now in the Irene Wellington collection at Minnesota. In a postscript, written at the top of the letter Johnston comments: 'This I.S., the pick of about 20 trials, shows how difficult a letter S really is. You will see how it is stiff in the back, th'o that's partly my fault (as is all of the awkward join near D). The ink failed for want of the penful such letters require.'
Rights Owner	Andrew and Angela Johnston/Crafts Study Centre 2004
Style Period Period	1940s
Technique	hand-lettering