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CLARK
(Sir Kenneth Mackenzie, 1903-1983, Art Historian, Life Baron)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed 'K' to 'Dearest Ava' LADY WAVERLEY
(1896-1974, wife of Sir John Anderson, Viscount Waverley) saying that he owes her two letters of thanks for the most delightful evenings... adored the trip down the Avon & equally the ring of Valkyrie. It has always been my favourite of the Cycle... We had a most delightful day & evening with Mollie & Walter at Drumlanrig. I think the most beautiful house in Scotland with the most beautiful things in it... what possessions they have! It is incredible - where on can spend an evening with Queen Elizabeth sitting in chairs given by Charles II to Monmouth - in a room lit by sconces given to Monmouth by Charles II & so on ad infinitum - one is transported into another world... How sad it will be when Drumlanrig becomes a kind of Chateau of the Loire? That is the only sorrow about Chatsworth. Admirable as the arrangement is - how much better it would have been if Anconer could have gone on living there. Houses very quickly turn into Museums - & die. Mollie is really a genius at entertaining. To transport the whole household from Boughton to Drumlanrig & back & have 22 people to dinner every night - is a triumph! I put you, & Mollie & Diana Cooper as the three best hostesses in my generation. How happy I am to know & love them all! & enjoy such hospitality. I wish you and John weren't going away in the summer & could have come either her - or to Glancomer for the Festival..., 4 sides 4to., Harwood Bonchester Bridge, Hawick headed paper, 27th June no year
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Background
Clark was an art historian, museum director and broadcaster. His expertise covered a wide range of artists and periods, but he is particularly associated with Italian Renaissance art, most of all that of Leonardo da Vinci. After running two art galleries in the 1930s and 1940s, he came to wider public notice on television, presenting a succession of programmes on the arts from the 1950s to the 1970s, the largest and best known being the Civilisation series in 1969. Ava was styled as Lady Anderson from 1941 until 1952. She was a political and social hostess at the centre of government during the Second World War. Winston Churchill noted her contact with gt. affairs. It was said that she had more indirect influence than any woman of her generation.
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