BIB_ID
316390
Accession number
MA 3848.183
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1956].
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 cm
Notes
Date of writing inferred from contents of the letter: Sitwell fell returning from the Adleburgh Festival in 1956.--Cf. Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell (New York: Knopf, 1981), p. 324.
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 from "Renishaw Hall, Renishaw, near Sheffield."
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 from "Renishaw Hall, Renishaw, near Sheffield."
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Regretting that she did not hear Kenneth's lecture at the Aldeburgh festival and describing in detail an accident she sustained on the train during her return to London: noting that she fell in the train carriage and had to be carried out of the train and wheeled along the platform on a luggage truck. Mentioning that once she finally returned to Renishaw she received a letter from an American woman, whom neither she nor Osbert had ever met, inviting herself and her daughter to stay at Renishaw, citing her distaste for hotels and asking for two large rooms overlooking the flower beds.
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