BIB_ID
316109
Accession number
MA 3848.64
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1952 May 21.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (10 p.) ; 16.5 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 on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Written on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Thanking him for his book and praising his writing; noting that one passage "illuminates for me a great deal of modern poetry, as well as the subject of which you were writing," noting that "many modern poets are 'thinking aloud' and that makes the verse diffused." Describing the days leading up to her most recent performance of the Facade were "sheer hell" and that she was bothered by several lunatics and tiresome people, including a Mr. Menukin who claimed he had "invented a voice system that would revolutionize the world, end wars, taxation, divorce, non-divorce, old age, and death."
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