Autograph letter signed : Renishaw Hall [near Sheffield], to Jane Clark, "Monday" [1956 June or July].

Record ID: 
316350
Accession number: 
MA 3848.151
Author: 
Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964.
Credit: 
Gift of Lord Clark of Saltwood, 1981.
Description: 
1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 cm
Notes: 

Written on Renishaw Hall stationery.
Date of writing based on contents of the lecture (Sitwell's mentioning seeing them at Aldeburgh). See also MA 3848.92-93. This letter was probably written the same day as one to Kenneth (MA 3848.150).
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.

Summary: 

Saying that she and Kenneth were "angels of kindness" to her at Aldeburgh; mentioning that she will come to London on the 10th and will be having "poor Evelyn Wiel" to stay; noting that Kenneth's lecture put an idea for a poem into her head. With a postscript asking for the prescription for her "red pill" as she thinks it will do her and Osbert a great deal of good.

Provenance: 
Gift of Lord Clark, 1981.