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Three handwritten letters, three handwritten postcards, a typed postcard, three typed letters and a telegram, Hoglands, Perry Green, Much Hadham Herts, to Gigi Richter. The letters cover the peiod December 1945-November 1947, when Gigi first met Henry Moore and relate to the time when she was renting the Mall Studio from him. The first postcard dated December 17th / 45 reads, 'Dear Miss Richter, I've just got Valentin's letter with your card enclosed. I shall be delighted if you'd care to come out here to my studio..'. In January the following year, Moore writes '...we shall be in London in about three week's time - it will be nice to see you there + you could have a look at the studio at the Mall, Hampstead'. The remaining letters discuss the Mall Studio and Moore wanting to collect a statue back - 'I should like to collect the reclining statue which I left at the Mall. It has a bit broken off one foot...'

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