BIB_ID
410313
Accession number
MA 4705.9
Creator
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.
Display Date
1942 January 29.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 8.9 x 14.1 cm
Notes
Cockerell gives the place of writing as "Ouseley Lodge / Old Windsor."
Signed with initials.
Addressed to: "Captain Siegfried Sassoon, MC / Heytesbury House, / Warminster / Wilts."
Signed with initials.
Addressed to: "Captain Siegfried Sassoon, MC / Heytesbury House, / Warminster / Wilts."
Provenance
Purchased from the bookseller Quaritch at Sotheby's, London, 18 July 1991, lot 25.
Summary
Concerning Thomas Hardy's attitude towards inscribing books: "T.H., as you know, did not like being asked to sign books, even for close friends. If he gave me a book it was naturally inscribed. I never dared ask him to autograph any other book either for myself or for people who begged me to do this for them. Books sent to him for the purpose from America or elsewhere were generally left unopened. After his death I remember seeing a little pile of them, but it did not amount to a roomfull or even to a formidable stack."
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