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Autograph letter signed : Heytesbury House [near Warminster], Wiltshire, to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1942 Jan. 22.

BIB_ID
131392
Accession number
MA 3000.97
Creator
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
Display Date
1942 Jan. 22.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Governor and Mrs. Elmer L. Andersen, 1977.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of 134 autograph letters, mostly to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, and 20 photographs and prints; items in the collection are described individually in 154 records (MA 3000.1-154).
Summary
Urging him to read [H.M.] Tomlinson's new book; praising Cockerell's letter in The Spectator; noting that he is working on an article, "The Dynasts in Wartime," for the Spectator; telling him that he listened to Max [Beerbohm]'s talk on the BBC "with delight": "for me it was and will be the only BBC half-hour worth remembering in 1942"; informing him that he picked up a copy of [Wilfrid Scawen] Blunt's poems from 1875 for £15.