Three Typed Letters Signed (all 'John : Gloag -.') to K. W. Luckhurst, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts; with copy of letter from Gloag to A. B. Read, Royal Designers in Industry; and copies of two of Luckhurst's replies.

All six items are good, on lightly aged paper, with pin holes to the top left-hand corners. Gloag's first letter (4to, 1 p, 13 lines) concerns a 'most unfortunate error, made by the Rotary Club of London in printing a paper which I recently gave on "Design in Industry,". The copy of Gloag's letter to Read (typed, 17 February 1950, 4to, 1 p) reveals this to have been the describing of Gloag 'on the luncheon menu as an "R.D.I." ' In the copy of Luckhurst's reply (12mo, 1 p, 16 lines) he comments that he has 'read enough press reports to know how unavoidable such things are'. Gloag's second letter (4to, 2 pp) concerns an approach which has been made to one of the Society's new members, Gloag's friend F. C. Hooper, 'with a suggestion that he should use his influence in business in order to advertise in the Society's Journal'. Gloag considers that 'it is beneath the dignity of the Society to tout for advertisements', and suggests that 'all the letters sent out by the Society' should be withdrawn. Gloag's third letter (12mo, 1 p, 7 lines) explains that he has been asked by Raymond Loewy to forward his book 'Never Leave Well Enough Alone' to the Society's library. Luckhurst's reply (12mo, 1 p, 5 lines) acknowledges receipt of the book.