BIB_ID
137584
Accession number
MA 3847.1-36
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
[ca. 1947-1962].
Credit line
Gift; Lord Clark of Saltwood; 1980.
Description
36 items (135 p.), unbound ; ca. 33 cm
Notes
Blue cloth drop-spine box (37.4 cm)
Dating: the poems in this collection have been dated by their initial publications.
Housed with MA 3848, a large collection of correspondence from Edith Sitwell to Kenneth and Jane Clark.
The poems in the collection were all sent by the poet to Kenneth and Jane Clark.
Dating: the poems in this collection have been dated by their initial publications.
Housed with MA 3848, a large collection of correspondence from Edith Sitwell to Kenneth and Jane Clark.
The poems in the collection were all sent by the poet to Kenneth and Jane Clark.
Summary
Collection consists of thirty-three autograph fair copies of her poems (MA 3847.1-29) as well as Sitwell's manuscript copies of one poem by Sylvia Potter (MA 3847.30), one poem by Al Alvarez (MA 3847.31) and two poems by José García Villa (MA 3847.32). Collection also contains two autograph letters from Sitwell to Kenneth Clark, and two letters from Clark (one to Cyril Connoly and one to José García Villa). Items in the collection have been cataloged individually in 36 separate records; see related records for more information.
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