Autograph letter signed : Renishaw Hall [near Sheffield], to Jane Clark, 1958 Sept. 14.

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Autograph letter signed : Renishaw Hall [near Sheffield], to Jane Clark, 1958 Sept. 14.

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Remarking that she could not answer Jane's letter sooner because her American publisher has given her the task of signing her name 2,000 times; regretting that they will miss each other in London, especially since Sitwell had a "miserable summer;" describing a rejoinder to "a little semi-poet called Thom Gunn" that she intends to spread around London.

1 item (4 p.) ; 22.8 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8192575

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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...

Gunn, Thom

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Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929. His first book of poems, "Fighting Terms," was published in 1954, and Gunn was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University in the same year. From 1958 to 1966 and 1973 to 1990 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He received numerous awards during his life, most notably the MacArthur Fellowship for lifetime achievement in poetry in 1993. Gunn passed away in San Francisco, California, in 2004. Fr...