BIB_ID
316163
Accession number
MA 3848.76
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1953 Nov. 17.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 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 the "St. Regis Hotel, 1 East 55th Street, New York City 22."
Written from the "St. Regis Hotel, 1 East 55th Street, New York City 22."
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Thanking them for sending a cable on hearing of Dylan Thomas' death. Saying "I cannot tell you what the sadness has been, and is, like -- also the kind of Kafka-like atmosphere of suspicion & hatred, the accusations, some veiled, some quite open." Reporting that when Caitlin arrived she threw herself on Dylan, "nearly smashing the oxygen tent, and preventing him from getting his health," and then tried to strangle John Brinnin of the Poetry Center. Once she was pulled off of Brinnin, she "tore the clothes off the nursing nuns," and was ordered by the doctors to Bellevue. Her transfer to Bellevue was prevented somehow, but she was "shut up" in a home for two days. Remarking on "another woman who had got hold of Dylan" and voicing her sympathy for Caitlin.
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