SITWELL ON 'FACADE' SITWELL (Dame Edith, 1887-1964, Poet)

Fine Autograph letter signed in full to Miss Cooper saying that she is "not sure to which of Dr Walton's works you are referring but I think it may be the orchestral suite 'Facade' the whole of which (it has many numbers) is adapted from a joint work of Dr Walton's and mine. This, also called 'Facade' consisted of poems of mine recited by a speaker, with a small orchestra, the music being, of course, Dr Walton's. The poems in question ... appear in my Collected Poems, not in the order in which they appear in Dr Walton's work ..." she then explains how they differ, she continues that she is "not very familiar with the Suite, as she has not heard it for a long time ...", when she has listed all the poems in the suite she goes on that she thinks "these all come to the suite. In my case, they did to the original work, from which the Suite was taken. We did a good many other ... a Scotch Rhapsody and a Tarentella which I have not reprinted ..." and she says the works can by got from the OUP, 2 sides 4to., Renishaw Hall, 5th January paperclip mark at the head not affecting the text

Like her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell, Edith reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents, and lived for much of her life with her governess. She never married, but became passionately attached to the homosexual Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was unfailingly generous and helpful.

Item Date:  1944

Stock No:  38335      £375

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