| Description | Correspondence originally filed under 'M-N' by Tennant. The file includes: a letter from Yehudi Menuhin declining Tennant's invitation to sit for him (/1); correspondence and commission statements related to Tennant's semi-abstract figures made during the 1960s, many of which featured in Tennant's 'Figures in Movement' exhibition at the Molton Gallery, London in 1965 (/2-22); a typescript signed letter from Henry Moore dated May 1947 informing Tennant of his decision not to leaving his Chelsea teaching job, writing that 'I am actually enjoying being there – seeing a life model again and criticising life work after not working from a life model at all during the war – its doing me good to look carefully for a whole day each week at a life model again' (/23); a letter from L. Edwards regarding Tennant's nomination to the National Amalgamated Furnishing Trades Association and his use of Denham Studios (/24); and a purchase order and letter from Nottinghamshire Education Committee related to the purchase of Tennant's bronze sculpture 'Cosh Boys' selected by Miss Evelyn Gibbs (/25-26). |