Stolen literary documents 2
Visiting the fabulous Rex Whistler exhibition at Brighton Museum, I note that Whistler's beautiful sketchbook of his time in Rome during 1928 was lost (stolen) on an Italian train in 1929. Whistler was killed whilst serving with the Welsh Guards in Normandy in 1944. It is some comfort to know that the note book was returned to his brother, the glass engraver, Laurence, in 1959, thirty years after its disappearance. And now you can see it in Brighton.
Visiting the fabulous Rex Whistler exhibition at Brighton Museum, I note that Whistler's beautiful sketchbook of his time in Rome during 1928 was lost (stolen) on an Italian train in 1929. Whistler was killed whilst serving with the Welsh Guards in Normandy in 1944. It is some comfort to know that the note book was returned to his brother, the glass engraver, Laurence, in 1959, thirty years after its disappearance. And now you can see it in Brighton.
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