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.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773831207

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

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...