Autograph letter signed : London, to Jane Clark, "Monday" [1961].

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Autograph letter signed : London, to Jane Clark, "Monday" [1961].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773927817

Regretting to hear that Kenneth has been ill, noting it has been a "nightmare winter;" promising to send off Colin's wedding present (her Collected Poems and English Eccentrics); hoping that a trip to Italy will help Kenneth recover his health; noting that she has no news except that a "20th rate versifier called John Wain" has been "pert" to her in the Observer, and sharing her intended rejoinder to him: "...if I were not a Roman Catholic I should have committed suicide immediately on knowing that somebody who writes as he does, disapproves of any poem I have written."

1 item (4 p.) ; 17.7 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8194598

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Clark, Jane, Lady.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68w3gzr (person)

Clark, Colin, 1932-2002

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p56pvh (person)

Clark, Kenneth, 1903-1983

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6183950 (person)

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...