He thanks Clausen for recognising the service he has rendered the "state" during his life, and reminds him that he set out to "destroy" the teaching methods used by the "state", in the form of the S&A Department [Royal College of Art] and the
Royal Academy. He states that his attitudes derive from his innate personality. He is grateful for the purchase of his work "Ivy Arch" by the Chantrey Bequests; his tennant, a portrait painter, cannot pay his rent until the war is over. He talks of the war and that
Connard has dropped in periodically, despite the blackout. He is enjoying a press spat on art between
MacColl and
B. Shaw.