Literary
WE MUST HOPE THAT THE DUTCH GIRL MISBEHAVES HERSELF AND HAS TO BE SENT BACK TO HOLLAND
SACKVILLE WEST
(Vita, 1892-1962, Poet & Novelist)
Typed Letter Signed Vita Nicolson to Miss Patricia Kelly,
saying that it was such a pleasure to see you again and I am only sorry that I wasn't up and thus able to see more of you. I had some difficulty in running my cousins to earth as there was no reply to their telephone in London, but I found them eventually having a holiday on Hayling Island. I am afraid it sounds rather as though they had got a Dutch girl to help with the children, but I gave my cousins your address and telephone number and asked them to communicate with you. We must hope that the Dutch girl misbehaves herself and has to be sent back to Holland..., 2 sides 8vo., with original typed envelope, Sissinghurst Castle headed paper, 27th July
Item Date: 1960
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Background
Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf.
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