Autograph letter signed : London, to Jane Clark, "Tuesday" [1954].

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Jane Clark, "Tuesday" [1954].

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Regretting that she was unable to go to the Zoo and saying how much she appreciated Kenneth coming to visit her; remarking that she is enthralled to hear that Jane has also been "badgered by that impossible young man;" noting that she had not seen him for two years and remarking on his behavior at a tea party, noting that he made "proposals of a strange character" to an elderly maiden lady "of pristine purity," the young girl, and Gillen Searle, and reporting that after luncheon he took off his coat and rolled up his trousers. Apologizing for his presence and noting that he ought to go to a mental specialist. With a postscript reporting that he apparently has suffered both religious mania and sex-mania, noting that this combination is dangerous "as god may tell him to do anything!" Mentioning that she goes to Durrants Hotel on Thursday.

1 item (6 p.) ; 16.5 cm

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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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...

Clark, Jane, Lady.

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