SITWELL, Edith. Collected Poems. London: Macmillan & Co., 1957. First edition, with 5 a.l.s. loosely inserted, 8vo (215 x 134mm.) (Spotting and browning to preliminaries and fore-edge.) Original blue cloth (browned to extremities), dust-jacket (browning and staining to spine panel). Note: the letters are all addressed to Sheila Wilson and dated 1955-1958. They are chatty, affectionate letters, referring to the literary life: her publisher has reduced her 'to idiocy' by making her sign her name 3000 times, inviting Sheila for drinks 'with a boy who I think is going to be a really great poet'- Quentin Stevenson. There's other news: 'We are all really pleased about Osbert getting the C.H.' And domestic travails, too: the grumbling cat who follows the 'gay parlour-maid' around then 'climbs up the honeysuckle…in the middle of the night and starts grumbling again'. There's also a signed post-card and printed questionnaire she has written to fend off amateur poets from pestering her. One of the eighteen, interrogative questions being '[What is the] Age, Sex and Weight of your wife?'. Another, indicative of the time, being: 'Did you ever meet Burgess and Maclean, or anyone who ever knew them?' Sitwell helped Quentin Stevenson publish his first book of poetry but he soon changed his name to John Quentin, and is perhaps better known as a film actor.