Autograph letter signed : London, to Kenneth Clark, 1952 May 21.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Kenneth Clark, 1952 May 21.

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Thanking him for his book and praising his writing; noting that one passage "illuminates for me a great deal of modern poetry, as well as the subject of which you were writing," noting that "many modern poets are 'thinking aloud' and that makes the verse diffused." Describing the days leading up to her most recent performance of the Facade were "sheer hell" and that she was bothered by several lunatics and tiresome people, including a Mr. Menukin who claimed he had "invented a voice system that would revolutionize the world, end wars, taxation, divorce, non-divorce, old age, and death."

1 item (10 p.) ; 16.5 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Clark, Jane, Lady.

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Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983

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Kenneth Clark was an art historian and a patron of the arts. He was born in London, and educated at Winchester and Trinity College, Oxford, where he gained a second class in modern history. In the autumn of 1925, art historian Bernard Berenson asked him to assist him in the revision of his corpus of Florentine drawings. In 1929 he was offered the task of cataloguing Leonardo da Vinci's drawings held at Windsor Castle. In 1931 he was appointed keeper of the Department of Fine Art at the Ashmolean...