BIB_ID
409900
Accession number
MA 4705.1
Creator
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.
Display Date
1915 August 26.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.1 cm
Notes
On stationery with the letterhead of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and a blind embossed seal.
Provenance
Purchased from the bookseller Quaritch at Sotheby's, London, 18 July 1991, lot 25.
Summary
Thanking him for his kind gift of poems, a photograph and "sweets for the children which I have heard spoken of with much enthusiasm"; telling Sassoon that he has had a guest staying with him, so that he has only had a chance to glance at the poems, but when the guest leaves he will re-read them with care; sending a book of Wilfrid Blunt's including a poem called "Esther" (he may be referring to "Esther -- A Young Man's Tragedy"); mentioning that the Fitzwilliam Museum has the finished manuscript of the poem, and that he has the draft at Wayside (his home in Cambridge); commenting "[s]ome of the other poems in the volume are good, others are juvenilia"; writing "All good luck to you in your soldiering -- We look forward to many a good talk with you in years to come."
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