A brief, but insightful professional correspondence (1954-7) between the British society photographer Pamela Chandler and the sculptor and translator, Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge, regarding Chandler’s commission to photograph Troubridge’s three beloved dogs (“all being shampooed this day by me!”); the shoot, at Troubridge’s flat, 45 Princes Gate Mews (“the white and stone one at the end of the middle mews”), on 8 December 1954, for which Chandler charged £12.12.0, proved a great success, with Troubridge still ordering prints in 1957: “As I expected, they love the photographs that I have, No. 8 will you send to Nicola [Rossi-Lemeni, the Italian-Russian operatic bass and her good friend] as soon as possible 1 copy large, mounted & 6 [amended in pencil by Chandler to “12”] of the smaller ones,” and allows Chandler to give the Duke of Leicester “a photograph of ‘Peckham [?]’ – it is such a charming one”. Nevertheless, Chandler was forced to chase her client for payment, writing in February 1955: “I would be grateful of an early settlement as my accountants are waiting to complete my 1954 accounts”.
With her partner, Radclyffe Hall, Troubridge had some success showing and breeding dachshunds (Fitz-John Wotan and Fitz-John Thorgils of Tredholt, notably), between the wars. By the mid-1950s, and this correspondence, Troubridge was mostly living in Florence, though evidently with stints still spent in England. [ref: 3488]