BIB_ID
316406
Accession number
MA 3848.187
Creator
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Display Date
"Saturday" [1960].
Credit line
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 17.6 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: Home at Grasmere: extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth, written between 1800 and 1803, and from the poems of William Wordsworth, ed. Colette Clark, was first published in 1960.
Written on Sesame Imperial and Pioneer Club stationery.
Year of writing inferred from contents of the letter: Home at Grasmere: extracts from the Journal of Dorothy Wordsworth, written between 1800 and 1803, and from the poems of William Wordsworth, ed. Colette Clark, was first published in 1960.
Provenance
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.
Summary
Thanking her for the flowers and for copies of Colette's and Alan's books; remarking that she loves poor Dorothy so much and saying it is a shame that she did not run away with Coleridge, noting that she should have and that this would have "saved both of them from a great deal;"looking forward to Wednesday; complaining that she "can still hardly hobble" and hates being so lame.
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