BIB_ID
316369
Accession number
MA 3848.165
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1935-1962].
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 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 earliest letter in the collection and the death of Beryl De Zoete in 1962.
Written on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Possible year of writing based on earliest letter in the collection and the death of Beryl De Zoete in 1962.
Written on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Thanking him for some wild tulips, noting that they remind her of the Sitwell's Italian home Castello di Montegufoni; remarking that she and Osbert are worried to hear that Kenneth is still so ill; hoping that he and Kenneth will come to lunch as soon as he is better; saying that she has no news except that Hindemith is going to set something of hers to music. With a postscript noting that "Baby Beryl is pestering me!"
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