Gerald Kelly, 117 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W. 1., to Sydney
Kelly sends a four page list of proposals for winter exhibitions. He writes that "there is no worse way of pleasing the public than by courting it . . . The series of shows starting eighteen years ago with the Spanish Exhibition, (which was extremely badly chosen and a poor exhibition,) have, on the whole, proved an immense success. The greater part of the public came for pretty vulgar reasons."
The proposals consist of landscapes (
Turner and
Constable); portraits (
Raphael,
Titian and others); Spanish; and England (1870 - 1920, or 1880 - 1930, including only a small number of pictures by members of the Royal Academy), with Kelly's comments.