Autograph letter signed : Hollywood, Calif., to Jane Clark, 1953 Mar. 4.

Apologizing for not having written sooner, noting that she has been suffering from sciatica and has been working "more appallingly hard than it would be possible to imagine"; hoping that Jane and Kenneth are well; saying that she plans to leave for New York on the 16th and to return to London on April 5; writing that they have had a heat wave and an epidemic of rabies in California; relating a story about a dog infected with rabies told to her by a woman named Velma, who Sitwell describes as the "angel of a coloured maid who looks after me"; reproducing what she portrays as Velma's way of speaking and commenting in a patronizing manner on Velma's lack of understanding of the danger she was in; adding that Little, Brown has asked her to compile an anthology of English and American poetry.