BIB_ID
316022
Accession number
MA 3848.46
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1950 May 12.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (8 p.) ; 20.3 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 "Castello di Montegufoni, Montagnana, Val di Pesa (Firenze)."
Written from "Castello di Montegufoni, Montagnana, Val di Pesa (Firenze)."
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Regretting to hear that Jane is ill and asking after her; saying she is returning to London on June 1 and inviting him to dine on the 2nd, noting that Jack Lindsay and David Gascogne will be of the party; noting that the weather has been heavenly and that they have been frequently dining in the garden; describing an incident involving Sitwell being talked into giving a Facade at the Opera Club, Oxford and reporting that an uninvited sub-editor of the undergraduate magazine Isis described her as "the doyenne of drawing-room letters!!!" Mentioning that Pavel sent her some books by Gaston Bachelard.
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