BIB_ID
316233
Accession number
MA 3848.109
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1959 Feb. 17.
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 on Castello di Montegufoni stationery.
Written on Castello di Montegufoni stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Apologizing for not having written, citing the worst attack of sciatica she has ever had; regretting that she and Osbert did not see her and Kenneth while they were in Florence; noting that she arrives in London on March 13, and asking when they are free to dine; relating at length an amusing episode she suffered on a train returning from giving a performance in Florence; noting that she recently received a letter from Graham Greene in a leper colony, noting that she is very fond of Greene and prasing him as a "very fine writer" but disagreeing with him by noting that "Lolita is a filthy book."
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