| Description | Fragmentary typescript letter, from Kenneth Clark to Miss Brownell, regarding the as yet unpublished typescript of '<i>Such, such were the joys</i>', confirming the accuracy of George Orwell's portraits of Mr and Mrs Wilkes and the easy identification of St Cyprian's, advising that a lawyer should be consulted (in particular, Osbert Sitwell's, whose '<i>Happy Endings</i> in '<i>Dumb Animal and Other Stories</i>' resulted in his Crammer launching a libel action). The letter also reports his son Alan as saying St Cyprian's "was the most awful school he had ever been to" while a manuscript note adds "we took him away from it, he went to another which seemed crude enough, but he said was heaven after St. C", (1f). |