BIB_ID
316366
Accession number
MA 3848.162
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
"Thursday" [after 1957 July 31].
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 17.4 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 inferred from contents of the letter: Pavel Tchelitchew died on 31 July 1957.
Written on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Possible date of writing inferred from contents of the letter: Pavel Tchelitchew died on 31 July 1957.
Written on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Thanking him for his sympathy regarding "what I am having to put up with from the papers;" enclosing two poems: one by Mr. Alvarez ("The Catharsis," MA 3847.31) and one that she wrote a few days previously, noting it is the first one she has written in two years; regretting that she must decline an invitation for Saturday because she has been feeling ill and hoping to see them before they travel abroad; noting that "Baby Beryl" is overcome with grief at Pavel's death, remarking that she only met the artist twice; mentioning Colette's upcoming marriage; noting that she has a new secretary.
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