Autograph letter signed : Renishaw Hall [near Sheffield], to Kenneth Clark, 1946 Aug. 16.

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Autograph letter signed : Renishaw Hall [near Sheffield], to Kenneth Clark, 1946 Aug. 16.

Expressing her gratitude for his essay on her work, remarking that "nobody has ever written more wonderfully about my poetry, or with a more complete understanding of the impulses, intuitions, flashes of light, nerves and muscles of my poems." Mentioning that his essay has made her determined to write a poem based on a line from the Metamorphosis; mentioning that she will miss them at a performance of Façade on September 9.

1 item (4 p.) ; 12.6 x 20.2 cm

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