BIB_ID
316370
Accession number
MA 3848.166
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
"Monday" [1961].
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 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.
Written on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Year of writing inferred from contents of the letter: Colin Clark was married in 1961 (see MA 3848.131).
Written on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Year of writing inferred from contents of the letter: Colin Clark was married in 1961 (see MA 3848.131).
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Regretting to hear that Kenneth has been ill, noting it has been a "nightmare winter;" promising to send off Colin's wedding present (her Collected Poems and English Eccentrics); hoping that a trip to Italy will help Kenneth recover his health; noting that she has no news except that a "20th rate versifier called John Wain" has been "pert" to her in the Observer, and sharing her intended rejoinder to him: "...if I were not a Roman Catholic I should have committed suicide immediately on knowing that somebody who writes as he does, disapproves of any poem I have written."
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