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Wyndham Tennant From Lady Glenconner's memoir of 1918 jpg: Friend of the JSS Gallery Edward Tennant
John Singer
Sargent From: Jonathan
Whitney On your site I discovered the wonderful sketch of Edward Wyndham Tennant by JSS and vowed to locate a copy of the memoir his mother Pamela, Lady Glenconner wrote after his tragic death in WWI. I think the photo you have of Bim Tennant on your site is quite clear. Inside the book are some wonderful gravures of him in a suit and also in his Grenadier uniform. I want to have them removed and framed by a gallery. The book is a former library book so it would not bother me to have the pics removed and framed since it would make a beautiful collage. The book is very sweet and you can almost feel Lady Glenconner's pain as she recalls Bim's childhood and his final days on the battlefield. Currently, I am reading a
book about
Bim's brother Stephen Tennant called "Serious Pleasures" supposedly
Stephen
was the beauty of the family but I disagree...he was very effeminate
and
terribly spoiled whereas Bim was elegant but also masculine and very
much
beloved by all who knew him during his short life. I guess losing a
cousin
at 19 in Vietnam drew me to Bim's story. Date: Apr 6, 2006 After
Bim's death a private who had served with him wrote to Lady Glenconner
the following: When things were at their worst /
He would pass up and down the trench cheering the men / And it was a treat to see his face always smiling / When danger was greatest his smile was loveliest /
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