BIB_ID
316363
Accession number
MA 3848.159
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
"Wednesday the 14th" [1955 Sept. 14?].
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.8 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 date of writing based on contents of the letter: Sitwell began referring to herself as a "displaced person" following attacks in the Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator in 1954.
Written on Castle of Montegufoni stationery.
Possible date of writing based on contents of the letter: Sitwell began referring to herself as a "displaced person" following attacks in the Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator in 1954.
Written on Castle of Montegufoni stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Remarking that she returns to London the following Wednesday and asking her to dine on the 26th or 29th; hoping that kenneth is feeling better; asking if she has seen G.S. Fraser's "well-meaning" book about modern literature; noting that she is still working on her "giant anthology;" mentioning that Sachie has had surgery.
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