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Autograph letter signed : Renishaw Hall [near Sheffield], to Kenneth Clark, 1947 July 18.

BIB_ID
315940
Accession number
MA 3848.25
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1947 July 18.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 26.6 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, Renishaw, near Sheffield.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Saying that it was a great pleasure to see his essay in Horizon, noting that "it cannot possibly fail to make hesitating readers understand what I am trying to do." Mentioning Osbert's reaction to it; sending a poem. Returning to the subject of his essay, by noting that she was thinking of Yeats when writing a certain poem, as he conjectured.