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Lambert, J.W. (Sunday Times, J.W. Lambert Assistant Editor) to J. LeRoy. 9 Jun 1961. "Dear Miss LeRoy, I write most apologetically, and with great misgivings, to ask if you will be good enough to put before Dame Edith certain feelings we have about her contribution on "Pride" for our series about the Seven Deadly Sins...." Typed transcription

Scope and Contents From the Series: The Edith Sitwell material is subdivided into writings, correspondence, and miscellaneous. The writings consist of handwritten, typescript, and carbon copy typed drafts of lectures, poems, articles, and reviews by Edith Sitwell. The correspondence consists of 76 handwritten and typed letters and postcards, (a few being in the form of transcriptions or photocopies), and 5 telegrams, between Edith Sitwell and her friends, colleagues, publishers, and others, (including Lorna...

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"Dearest Zosia, You were such an angel of kindness, goodness and sweetness to us during our whole visit...." Handwritten and signed letter

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"Dearest Zosia, Thank you a thousand times for your most sweet letter. I was just about to write to you, when Pandora's Box broke over me...." Handwritten and signed letter, 3s. Handwritten and signed draft of a poem entitled, "Penal Settlement: The Stone-Breakers

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"Dearest Zosia, Thank you a thousand times for your most sweet, kind letter, also for your Easter message, which has just reached me...." Handwritten and signed letter,

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"Dearest Zosia, Thank you so much for your dear letter. I am most distressed to hear you have had this wretched influenza again...." Handwritten and signed letter

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"Dearest Zosia, How truly horrified I am when I think of my long silence, after receiving your last sweet and kind letter. But it has not been my fault...." Handwritten and signed letter

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"Dearest Zosia, You must think I am the worst of friends, not to have written to you before. But life has been really impossible...." Handwritten and signed letter

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"Dearest Zosia, Thank you so very much for your sweet letter which reached me at Easter, and which I should have answered at once, but I was just starting for Montegufoni...." Handwritten and signed letter

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"Dearest Zosia, How kind and sweet it was of you to send us such a wonderful bouquet...." Handwritten and signed letter