BIB_ID
316220
Accession number
MA 3848.99
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1957 Sept. 29.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.2 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 "Castllo di Montegufoni, Montagnana, Val di Pesa, Prov. Firenze."
Written from "Castllo di Montegufoni, Montagnana, Val di Pesa, Prov. Firenze."
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Regretting that she and Kenneth will not be visiting the Sitwells in Italy; asking after her health; referencing a negative article or review about Kenneth; hoping that he will be able to devote more time to writing; saying she is in a "passion" with Alan Pryce-Jones who had promised to give her a lengthy review of her Collected Poems in the middle pages of his periodical and complaining that he has given her merely 656 words in the back pages; complaining about a young house guest who will not leave, noting that "He admires Mr. Elvis Presley!!"
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