Reference code
RAA/SEC/4/55/4
Title
Ernest Gillick, Moravian Close, 381 King's Road Chelsea, to Lamb
Date
St Luke's Day [18 Oct] 1946
Level
Item
Extent & medium
3pp.
Previous reference codes
602, RAC 1, GI 19
Content Description
Gillick replies to Lamb's letter and enclosures of 18 January 1946 and describes events relating to the commission of memorials to Admirals
Jellicoe and
Beatty in Trafalgar Square. He does not accept [
Sir William Reid Dick's] letter on the subject of 9 January 1946 as being true or fair, and objects to his own letter to
Sir Edwin Lutyens of 10 November 1937 being placed before the Council.
Sir William Llewellyn had informed him of certain people working in an underhand way to destroy the original scheme for statues instead of fountains. [Dick's] letter reveals a conspiracy to cheat two sculptor members of the Royal Academy of their rightful honours and rewards.