BIB_ID
315923
Accession number
MA 3848.20
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1946 Dec. 16.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 25.4 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 Renishaw Hall stationery.
Written on Renishaw Hall stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Sending her condolences on the recent death of his mother. Saying she is relieved to know he received her Shadow of Cain. Concerning Clark's submission of an essay on Edith Sitwell's verses to José García Villa, apologizing for the fact that Villa never responded to Clark; promising to cable him and ask about the status of the essay and the magazine. With a postscript detailing a conversation between Edith and her brother Osbert, who thought Edith knew about Clark's mother's death.
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