BIB_ID
316187
Accession number
MA 3848.87
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1955 Nov. 8.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (6 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 prov. Firenze."
Written from "Castello di Montegufoni, Montagnana, Val di Pesa prov. Firenze."
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Apologizing for not having written, citing the "wear and tear of getting my immense anthology finished" and a bout of influzenza; regretting that they missed each other in London and saying she plans to return probably in February; discussing at lenght her intention to begin teasing Dr. Lewis again by readdressing all her "semi-insane" to him; asking if she has seen Robert Graves's violent attack on Tom (Eliot), Ezra (Pound), Dylan (Thomas), etc.
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