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"Dear Dame Edith, I have been asked to reply to your letter of the 11th March which was addressed to the Company. As you know, we are extremely sorry for the inconvenience and the disturbance to which you have been put...." Typed and signed letter

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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Elizabeth Salter, secretary. "Dear Mr. Ratcliffe, Thank you for your letters of March 6 and 19 to Dame Edith Sitwell...." Carbon copy typed letter

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Handwritten addressed envelope

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Edith Sitwell to Raymond Marriott. 28 Sept, 12 Oct, 29 Dec, 1939; 24 May 1944; 22 Mar 1948. 5 Telegrams.

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No date. "My Dear Miss Sittwell, [sic], What an unhappy woman you must be without entry to either Heaven or Hell...." Typed transcription, 1s.

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Incomplete date. Invitation to the marriage of their daughter, Teresa to Auberon Waugh.

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"Dear Madam, What you wrote in today's Mirror is so right...." Typed and signed letter

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"Daddy Wolf." Short story, inscribed to Edith Sitwell from James Purdy, excised from unknown source.

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...