From the March 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In March 1974, the painter Roger Hilton wrote a 22-page letter to Peter Townsend, the editor of Studio International. ‘Because I have peripheral neuritis I have largely lost the use of my legs, the arms & midriff are going,’ it began. ‘I have a skin condition which is driving me mad. All this is caused by alcohol.
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