Autograph letter signed : New York, to Kenneth Clark, 1953 Nov. 17.

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Autograph letter signed : New York, to Kenneth Clark, 1953 Nov. 17.

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Thanking them for sending a cable on hearing of Dylan Thomas' death. Saying "I cannot tell you what the sadness has been, and is, like -- also the kind of Kafka-like atmosphere of suspicion & hatred, the accusations, some veiled, some quite open." Reporting that when Caitlin arrived she threw herself on Dylan, "nearly smashing the oxygen tent, and preventing him from getting his health," and then tried to strangle John Brinnin of the Poetry Center. Once she was pulled off of Brinnin, she "tore the clothes off the nursing nuns," and was ordered by the doctors to Bellevue. Her transfer to Bellevue was prevented somehow, but she was "shut up" in a home for two days. Remarking on "another woman who had got hold of Dylan" and voicing her sympathy for Caitlin.

1 item (4 p.) ; 20.3 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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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...

Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-....

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John Malcolm Brinnin (1916-1998) was a poet, critic, anthologist, and teacher who, among other accomplishments, helped to popularize Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in the United States as well as establishing the 92nd Street Y in New York City as a center for literary activity. A successful poet, Brinnin also authored a number of biographies as well as several works on travel. From the description of John Malcolm Brinnin papers, 1930-1981. (University of Delaware Library). WorldCat record i...

Clark, Jane, Lady.

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Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953

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Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet who first achieved recognition with "Eighteen Poems" (1934). He wrote both prose and radio plays, including "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog" (1940), "Deaths and Entrances" (1946), "Under Milkwood" (1954), and "Adventures in the Skin Trade" (1955). From the description of Dylan Thomas collection. [1935-1953]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 660196437 Welsh author Dylan Thomas occupies a controversial place among 20t...