Autograph letter signed : Renishaw Hall [near Sheffield], to Jane Clark, "Sunday" [1956].

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Autograph letter signed : Renishaw Hall [near Sheffield], to Jane Clark, "Sunday" [1956].

Regretting that she did not hear Kenneth's lecture at the Aldeburgh festival and describing in detail an accident she sustained on the train during her return to London: noting that she fell in the train carriage and had to be carried out of the train and wheeled along the platform on a luggage truck. Mentioning that once she finally returned to Renishaw she received a letter from an American woman, whom neither she nor Osbert had ever met, inviting herself and her daughter to stay at Renishaw, citing her distaste for hotels and asking for two large rooms overlooking the flower beds.

1 item (4 p.) ; 20.2 cm

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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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