BIB_ID
315873
Accession number
MA 3848.8
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1945 Dec. 6.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 12.5 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 from Renishaw Hall.
Written from Renishaw Hall.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Thanking him for his kind words about her poems; mentioning that ill health has kept her from writing, but enclosing a poem she has just completed and noting that when she has a much larger selection she would like him and Jane to choose one to be dedicated to them; discussing his essay "Leon Battista Alberti on Painting;" praising his work and hoping he will write more, noting that she has a "passion for reading criticism." Saying that she and Osbert greatly enjoyed visiting them and that their house is one of only five in which she feels really comfortable.
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