BIB_ID
409906
Accession number
MA 4705.2
Creator
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.
Display Date
1915 September 3.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 8.9 x 11.4 cm
Notes
The place of writing has been taken from the postmark, which is only partial.
Signed with initials.
Addressed to: "Siegfried Sassoon, Esq / The Huts, / Litherland, / Liverpool."
Signed with initials.
Addressed to: "Siegfried Sassoon, Esq / The Huts, / Litherland, / Liverpool."
Provenance
Purchased from the bookseller Quaritch at Sotheby's, London, 18 July 1991, lot 25.
Summary
Relaying Wilfrid Blunt's reaction to Sassoon's novel The Daffodil Murderer, which Blunt thought was "better than Masefield, just as Swinburne's parody of Browning is better than Browning."
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