Autograph letter signed : London, to Jane Clark, "Friday" [1956?].

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Autograph letter signed : London, to Jane Clark, "Friday" [1956?].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/773946109

Thanking her for the roses; hoping she will be in town the following week and inviting her to lunch any day; remarking that the following week she must hang about waiting for George Cukor and is therefore unable to accept an invitation; mentioning that she goes to Renishaw on the 21st and thence to recite Façade at the York Festival. Discussing how much she and Kenneth mean to her and her poetry, remarking that she is sure she would not have been made a Dame without his influence; thanking them and noting that it is a remarkable put down to the Spectator and New Statesman (who had run terrible reviews of Sitwell).

1 item (6 p.) ; 16.3 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...