Letters of or relating to Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Item author: Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Item date: 20th century
Grant Value: 4,875
Item cost: 19,500
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2005
Item institution: Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery
Town/City: Glasgow

This collection of 31 letters includes letters from Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) and his artist wife, Margaret Macdonald Macintosh, to Jessie Newbery, the artist wife of the Director of the Glasgow School of Art. This group includes Mackintosh's last known letter, written in the final stage of the terminal cancer from which he died in December 1928.

Item Provenance
Dr Thomas Howarth, biographer of Mackintosh