BIB_ID
316326
Accession number
MA 3848.138
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1962 Aug. 24.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 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 Sitwell's personal stationery, headed From Dame Edith Sitwell, D.B.E., D.LITT., etc., Flat 42, Green Hill, Hampstead, N.W.3..."
Written on Sitwell's personal stationery, headed From Dame Edith Sitwell, D.B.E., D.LITT., etc., Flat 42, Green Hill, Hampstead, N.W.3..."
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Thanking her for the carnations; saying she is delighted with he effigy of Eleanor of Castille and that she enjoyed lunching with them recently; apologizing for the bad handwriting, noting that she is in bed and that two cats are "having a frantic tussle all over me;" remarking on how proud she is that she and Kenneth should return from Greece for her Centenary celebrations.
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