Subasta Bidspirit | HALDANE JOHN SCOTT: (1860-1936) Scottish

HALDANE JOHN SCOTT: (1860-1936) Scottish Physiologist. A.L.S., J. S. Haldane, one page, 8vo, Cherwel... - HALDANE JOHN SCOTT: (1860-1936) Scottish Physiologist. A.L.S., J. S. Haldane, one page, 8vo, Cherwell, Oxford, 13th January 1931, to [Thomas Willem] Van Oss. Haldane informs his correspondent that the warden of New College has informed him that the College 'would like to have, for a collection it is making, a Clarendon Press collotype of the chalk portrait you did of me, & which all my friends like', and therefore seeks his correspondent's approval and explains that he is asking the artist's sister to forward the letter 'as I don't know your address and fancy that you will not be back in England for some time'. With blank integral leaf. A few minor spots of foxing at the head of the page, only very slightly affecting the blind embossed address, and not the text or signature. About VG £150-200 Thomas Willem Van Oss (1901-1941) British Portrait and Landscape Painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy during the 1930s.