BIB_ID
316368
Accession number
MA 3848.164
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
"Saturday" [1960].
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 17.8 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 year of writing based on the publication of her Swinburne: A Selection (Harcourt, 1960).
Written on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Possible year of writing based on the publication of her Swinburne: A Selection (Harcourt, 1960).
Written on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Remarking on how much she enjoyed seeing her and Kenneth on Wednesday; thanking her for some violets; accepting an invitation to lunch on Thursday the 3rd; noting that there are a "few awful misprints" in her preface to Swinburne and asking her to correct them in her copy; mentioning that she has just written a poem and promising to send a copy soon. Mentioning that the American publisher of her anthology has asked her to write something about a book by his daughter; quoting a passage about a poodle and noting that she responded that the doctors have forbidden her to do so.
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