BIB_ID
373159
Accession number
MA 5141.68
Creator
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
Display Date
1961 July 20.
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with stamp and postmark to "Basil Dowling Esq. / 30c Shepherds Hill. / London. / N.6."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of War Poetry related to World War I; see collection record (MA 5141) for more information.
Written on stationery printed "Heytesbury House, / Wiltshire."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of War Poetry related to World War I; see collection record (MA 5141) for more information.
Written on stationery printed "Heytesbury House, / Wiltshire."
Provenance
Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Expressing his sympathy for his accident "which must have been alarming for all concerned, & might have damaged you permanently - & not even the compensation of it being inflicted by Apollo (never can remember how many p's in A!); discussing the reviews for his Collected Poems; "I agree that J. Bayley's review of C.[ollected] P.[oems] was much the most intelligent. They've all got a fixation about my not being modern in method - apart from my intellectual deficiencies! Anyhow the Observer & N. Statesman got as far as giving me credit for being a decent creature. Had they gone a step further they might have realized that the whole point of me and my writings is, that I'm a character - which is why so many people like my work. This, I believe, is a quality which makes up for lack of technical enterprise & invention. To assert as Alvarez did, that I've had nothing to say since 1920 is just silly. For years I've been telling people that I am not a professional writer & that the Foxhunting Man has the charm of amateurism."
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