Autograph letter signed : Renishaw Hall [near Sheffield], to Kenneth Clark, "Monday" [1956 June or July].

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Autograph letter signed : Renishaw Hall [near Sheffield], to Kenneth Clark, "Monday" [1956 June or July].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773830470

Thanking him for speaking before her "mutilated lecture;" noting that he and Jane are amongst the few friends her poetry has ever had; remarking that the part of his lecture about the three figures in Battersea Park gave her an idea for a poem; referencing seeing them in Aldeburgh, regretting her poor performance there remarking "people must take a dim view of my mental condition;" sending a reprinting of her Planet and Glow-worm.

1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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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...