BIB_ID
410248
Accession number
MA 4705.3
Creator
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.
Display Date
1932 May 13.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.8 x 11.4 cm
Notes
On stationery with black embossed letterhead: "3, Shaftesbury Road, / Cambridge."
Provenance
Purchased from the bookseller Quaritch at Sotheby's, London, 18 July 1991, lot 25.
Summary
Describing different editions of the book The Farmer's Bride, a collection of poetry by Charlotte Mew; mentioning that he has given away many copies of it; telling Sassoon that when he comes to the Fitzwilliam Museum, he will show him the original manuscript of The Farmer's Bride; adding that they also have a manuscript of the poem "Love Love today," but nothing else of Mew's; listing the editions of Sassoon's work that either he or the museum (it isn't clear from the context) owns; listing earlier works and asking "was Poems (1906) your first opus? And are there others besides those above enumerated?"; writing that he very much enjoyed their talk the previous day, particularly Sassoon's "praise and vindication of [Edmund] Blunden" and "unabated loyalty to Charlotte Mew"; adding that he would like to see what Sassoon writes about Mew; continuing "I think Alida [Monro] is contemplating some sort of a memoir, when she has quite recovered from her troubles"; mentioning that some people came to the museum that day who were from nearby the town of Teffont (where Sassoon was then living).
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