BIB_ID
316351
Accession number
MA 3848.152
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
1946 Aug. 16.
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 12.6 x 20.2 cm
Notes
Pages are numbered 1, 2, 7, and 8. Two sheets, comprising p. 3-6, are apparently missing.
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 Renishaw Hall stationery.
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 Renishaw Hall stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Expressing her gratitude for his essay on her work, remarking that "nobody has ever written more wonderfully about my poetry, or with a more complete understanding of the impulses, intuitions, flashes of light, nerves and muscles of my poems." Mentioning that his essay has made her determined to write a poem based on a line from the Metamorphosis; mentioning that she will miss them at a performance of Façade on September 9.
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