As I’ve continued to mention, when I was searching archives for Sickert documents I found hundreds of letters and papers written by him but virtually nothing written to him. Clearly the correspondence once existed. Did letters from friends, family, colleagues and even mentors such as Whistler and Degas mean so little to Sickert that he simply threw them away? Possibly, and it’s also possible he kept his music hall sketches for more than artistic reasons.
