MANUSCRIPT: Lady Anne Clifford (manuscript).
Original Manuscript
Sackville-West, Vita. The Diary of Lady Anne Clifford. 1923.
Foolscap of varying stocks; 27 leaves; black and blue ink and pencil manuscript on rectos; string tied.
Together with:
Typed letter signed, “George C. Williamson,” to Vita, December 8th, 1930, one leaf of Doctor Williamson letterhead, two pages.
Together with:
Typed transcript of extracts from the “Day Book of Anne Countess of Pembroke January 14th 1676.” (Produced by the manuscript’s owner, Mr. Atkinson.)
Small 4to.; 31 unbound typescript leaves; paperclip rust stains.
Manuscript draft of Vita’s “account of the life of Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery, 1590-1676,” composed, accordingly to her note, on June 29, 1923, and published as an “introductory note” to her edition of The Diary of Lady Anne Clifford which appeared in November. (Cross A11.) Together with related material from George C. Williamson. In his letter, Williamson details the recent acquisition of a fuller version of Lady Anne Clifford’s diary than he had previously used in researching his Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke, and Montgomery, 1590-1676, Her Life, Letters, and Work, published in 1922: this one was “discovered in a house in Cumberland … written probably by a member of the Hasel family” and fills in “several of the missing gaps of the diary already in existence.” He offers to send Vita a typed transcript of relevant passages, which is also present.
Vita’s ancestor, Lady Anne Clifford, was the wife of the third Earl of Dorset and the daughter of the Earl of Cumberland. Vita edited the diary as a spin-off of Knole and the Sackvilles, and wrote a biographical introduction. Her affinity with Lady Anne stemmed from their similar travails over the rights to the title of Knole.
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