BIB_ID
316378
Accession number
MA 3848.171
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
"Tuesday" [1954].
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 16.5 cm
Notes
Date of writing based on contents of the letter: Sitwell stayed at the Durrants Hotel in August, 1954 (see MA 3848.82).
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.
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.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Regretting that she was unable to go to the Zoo and saying how much she appreciated Kenneth coming to visit her; remarking that she is enthralled to hear that Jane has also been "badgered by that impossible young man;" noting that she had not seen him for two years and remarking on his behavior at a tea party, noting that he made "proposals of a strange character" to an elderly maiden lady "of pristine purity," the young girl, and Gillen Searle, and reporting that after luncheon he took off his coat and rolled up his trousers. Apologizing for his presence and noting that he ought to go to a mental specialist. With a postscript reporting that he apparently has suffered both religious mania and sex-mania, noting that this combination is dangerous "as god may tell him to do anything!" Mentioning that she goes to Durrants Hotel on Thursday.
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