Autograph letter signed : Hollywood, Calif., to Jane Clark, 1953 Mar. 4.

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Autograph letter signed : Hollywood, Calif., to Jane Clark, 1953 Mar. 4.

Apologizing for not having written sooner, noting that she has been suffering from sciatica and has been working "more appallingly hard than it would be possible to imagine;" hoping that she and Kenneth are well; planning to leave for New York on the 16th and to return to London on April 5; relating a story by her African American maid, quoting her at length.

1 item (4 p.) ; 20.3 cm

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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...