BIB_ID
315864
Accession number
MA 3848.4
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1942 Oct. 4.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 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 Sitwell's personal stationery embossed with her London address "Flat 42, / Greenhill, / Hampstead, / N.W.3."
Written on Sitwell's personal stationery embossed with her London address "Flat 42, / Greenhill, / Hampstead, / N.W.3."
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Hoping she received a telegram thanking her for some chrysanthemums, noting that she was unable to write personally because she was suffering from writer's cramp and has only just gotten out of a sling; mentioning that John Crosby and Kenneth Tynan have absurd her and her brother Osbert Sitwell in the New York Herald Tribune and outlining her planned letter of response to them.
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