Papers of Arthur Parsons Bean [manuscript], 1948-1981.

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Papers of Arthur Parsons Bean [manuscript], 1948-1981.

The collection consists of Bean's correspondence with members of the Sitwell family and with various authors, editors, and professors concerning the Sitwells, his collection of Sitwelliana and its exhibit at the University of Virginia, September 1978. Of interest are letters concerning a proposed introduction to the exhibit by Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Kenneth Clark's appreciation of the Sitwells and Sacheverell's reply to Clark's critique of his later poetry. There are also fourteen photographs of the castle of Montegufoni, and of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. Other correspondents include Harold Acton, Winifred Bryher, John Lehmann, Peter Russell, Stephen Spender, Donald A. Stauffer, Glenway Wescott, Victoria Glendinning, Francis T.S. Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, and Reresby Sitwell.

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