Autograph letter signed : London, to Kenneth Clark, 1954 Aug. 28.

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Kenneth Clark, 1954 Aug. 28.

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Praising his lecture as an experience she will never forget, remarking that "I agree with the people who say you are the greatest living lecturer;" thanking him for his sympathy regarding the Times Literary Supplement and New Statesman articles; noting that Donald Davie has remarked that she is "not a poet at all" and including one of Daive's poems, "Zip!"

1 item (5 p.) ; 20.3 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Davie, Donald, 1922-1995

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Donald Davie, a poet, literary critic, and teacher, was born in Barnsley in Yorkshire, England on 17 July 1922. His service in the Royal Navy during World War II, which sent him to Russia, sparked an interest in Russian literature; he later wrote his doctoral dissertation and other works on that subject, including Slavic Excursions: Essays on Russian and Polish Literature . Davie married Doreen John in 1945; they later had three children. He received his bachelor's degree in 1947 and his doctora...

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...

Clark, Jane, Lady.

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