Autograph letter signed : Montagnana, Italy, to Kenneth Clark, 1953 Oct. 3.

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Autograph letter signed : Montagnana, Italy, to Kenneth Clark, 1953 Oct. 3.

Discussing his injury (a slipped disc) and hoping he is already in less pain; recalling some of her own injuries; reporting that William Gerhardi wrote the terrible review of her book in the Times Literary Supplement; saying she will return to England (en route to Hollywood) on the 21st and hoping they will dine with her.

1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 cm

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SNAC Resource ID: 8191879

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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...

Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964

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English poet, biographer, critic, and anthologist. Edited and contributed to the annual anthology Wheels. From the description of Edith Sitwell correspondence, 1942-1944. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 28185434 English poet, critic, and novelist. From the description of Letter to an unknown recipient, ca. 1949. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817483 From the description of Photoprint and letter, n.d. and 1981 Oct...

Clark, Jane, Lady.

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Gerhardie, William Alexander, 1895-1977

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William Alexander Gerhardie (1895-1977), novelist and critic, was born in St Petersburg, Russia, on 21 November 1895, where he attended the St Annen Schule and Reformierte Schule. He moved to London, with the intention of training for a commercial career, but joined the Royal Scots Greys at the outbreak of the First World War. He was posted to the British embassy in Petrograd, 1916-1918, and in 1918 was attached to the Scots Guards. After the war, Gerhardie travelled the world before attending W...