BIB_ID
410339
Accession number
MA 4705.17
Creator
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.
Display Date
1945 December 17.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 8.8 x 14 cm
Notes
The image on the front of the postcard is a reproduction of a woodcut by Utamaro, "Watching Divers for Shell-fish," from the British Museum.
Signed with initials.
Addressed to: "Captain Siegfried Sassoon, MC / Heytesbury House / Warminster / Wilts."
This postcard continues on from MA 4705.16, when Cockerell began reading the newest volume of Sassoon's memoirs, "Siegfried's Journey."
Signed with initials.
Addressed to: "Captain Siegfried Sassoon, MC / Heytesbury House / Warminster / Wilts."
This postcard continues on from MA 4705.16, when Cockerell began reading the newest volume of Sassoon's memoirs, "Siegfried's Journey."
Provenance
Purchased from the bookseller Quaritch at Sotheby's, London, 18 July 1991, lot 25.
Summary
Writing that he was "[r]evelling in 'Siegfried's Journey' most of yesterday"; saying that he was greatly flattered by Sassoon comparing him to Henry Crabb Robinson, "the friend of so many great ones, from Goethe to Blake -- He died in 1867, in which year I was born. I should like to think that I took over the torch from him."
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