File 6 - Repainting and Cleaning Pictures in Little Trinity, 1930-1932

1 file, paper

File of letters concerning the painting of rooms and cleaning of pictures:

(1) 17th June 1930 - Letter from Samuel Hood asking for his room to be repainted cream (currently brown)
(2) Estimate from B. McLean Leach & Sons to carry out the work for £25
(3) Reply from Samuel Hood that the price was too high as he would only be there for 32 years
(4) Letter from B. McLean Leach & Sons explaining the reason for the cost and saying it would be cheaper to keep it brown although the original colour would have been cream
(5) Letter from B. McLean Leach & Sons to the Bursar informing him that Lord Duncannon had asked for his sitting room to be redecorated and asking for permission to clean and varnish the painting above the mantlepiece
(6) Letter from B. McLean Leach & Sons to the Bursar saying that they were waiting for a reply from Lord Duncannon about redecorating his room
(7) Letter from Mrs Bell to the Bursar to say that they would be leaving in March (1932) but asked him to visit to see the painting in the the back room in contrast to the newly cleaned and varnished one in Lord Duncannon's room

Lord Duncannon - Arthur Mountifort Longfield Ponsonby, 11th Earl of Bessborough (11th December 1912 – 5th April 2002). He was an undergraduate at Trinity College

Originally in a folder called "1930-31. Jesus Lane. N. Side. No. 16 Little Trinity. Repainting of Panelling. Cleaning Pictures"