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Autograph letter signed : London, to Kenneth Clark, undated [ca. 1947?].

BIB_ID
316346
Accession number
MA 3848.147
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1947?].
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.5 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.
Possible year of writing based on contents of the letter: Clark's essay "On the Development of Miss Sitwell's Later Style" appeared in the July 1947 issue of Horizon.
Written on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Thanking him for a letter; mentioning that she has been quite horribly insulted and enclosing a clipping presumably critical of Sitwell; remarking "why should I mind, when you say what you have said about my poetry!"