BIB_ID
315856
Accession number
MA 3848.2
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1937 Jan. 10.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 26.9 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of autograph letters of Dame Edith Sitwell to Kenneth and Jane Clark. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related collection-level record for more information.
Written on stationery embossed "129 Rue Saint-Dominique / Paris VIIe."
Written on stationery embossed "129 Rue Saint-Dominique / Paris VIIe."
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Saying she is glad he likes the preface for Sachie's book; noting that she is working on a preface for Pleasures of Poetry; mentioning that "a wave of idiocy seems to be sweeping over England; noting that its home is the Spectator and intending to send a letter to the editor; reporting that Pavel Tchelitchew remarked in a recent letter on how much he enjoys discussing painting with Clark and discussing Tchelitchew's work; asking whether Clark has seen Dylan Thomas' Twenty-five poems, noting "he is the boy I told you about" and remarking that "the poems are very obscure, and very strange, but singularly beautiful, and I think it is certain that he is going to be a great poet."
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