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A Few Posts Related to my BBC Radio 3 Doc – A Chinese Odyssey: Artists, Poets and Exiles in Interwar London – Chiang Yee’s Personalised Note Paper…

Posted: February 8th, 2022 | No Comments »

I was recently in the BBC Written Archives at Caversham and came across some letters from the artist and author Chiang Yee (‘The Silent Traveller’) and his friend the playwrite Hsiung Shih-I. What is interesting here, and what I had never seen before was that Chiang Yee produced personalised notepaper, painted with flower motifs and each individual sheet was different and individually hand-painted. Chiang clearly produced some for his friend Hsiung and used some himself. Below are several examples of this beautiful paper….

A letter from SI Hsiung in 1940 to a BBC producer on Chiang Yee-painted headed paper.
A January 1938 letter from Chiang Yee to a BBC producer on his own painted notepaper
A 1940 letter to Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston, on Chiang Yee hand-painted notepaper

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