BIB_ID
316386
Accession number
MA 3848.179
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
"Easter Sunday" [1962].
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection of autograph letters of Dame Edith Sitwell to Kenneth and Jane Clark. Items in the co llection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related collection-level record for more information.
Possible year of writing inferred from contents of the letter: In August 1961, Sitwell had yet to engage a cook at her Hampstead flat (see MA 3848.134); just before Christmas, 1961, Kenneth Clark bought three Tchelitchew drawings at Sotheby's to give to Sitwell.
Written on Sitwell's personal stationery, headed From Dame Edith Sitwell, D.B.E., D.LITT., etc., Flat 42, Greenhill, Hampstead, N.W.3..."
Possible year of writing inferred from contents of the letter: In August 1961, Sitwell had yet to engage a cook at her Hampstead flat (see MA 3848.134); just before Christmas, 1961, Kenneth Clark bought three Tchelitchew drawings at Sotheby's to give to Sitwell.
Written on Sitwell's personal stationery, headed From Dame Edith Sitwell, D.B.E., D.LITT., etc., Flat 42, Greenhill, Hampstead, N.W.3..."
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Regretting to hear that she has the German measles and cautioning her not to get a cold on top of it; mentioning that she heard the news about Jane's illness just as she was about to invite her and Kenneth to luncheon, noting that she has finally secured a cook; thanking her and Kenneth for giving her "those lovely Pavlicks" (pictures by Pavel Tchelitchew); relating that David Horner fell backwards on the stone staircase three weeks prior and split his skull in two places.
Catalog link
Department