BIB_ID
410342
Accession number
MA 4705.19
Creator
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.
Display Date
1949 April 22.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 17.6 x 13.3 cm
Notes
Cockerell gives the place of writing as "21 Kew Gardens Road / Kew, Richmond, Surrey." Kew is now considered part of greater London.
Cockerell may be referring in this letter to editions of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford and 51 Poems by Mary Webb that were illustrated with wood engravings by Joan Hassall.
Cockerell may be referring in this letter to editions of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford and 51 Poems by Mary Webb that were illustrated with wood engravings by Joan Hassall.
Provenance
Purchased from the bookseller Quaritch at Sotheby's, London, 18 July 1991, lot 25.
Summary
Sending him a book of poetry by Mary Webb and adding "I know you will like to put this book beside the two others. I have not yet got Cranford, which seems hard to come by, but I have proofs of a good many of the illustrations and a bookseller is on the lookout for a copy"; mentioning that Joan Hassall brought him a copy of her brother Christopher Hassall's book The Slow Night the previous day, "when she came to play Beggar's Opera airs to my wife on her flute"; telling Sassoon "I read the poems you indicated after she had gone, and thought them very good, and will turn to the others this evening. I am sorry that he seems to eschew rhyme"; mentioning the work of the poet Ruth Pitter: "I have only one book of Ruth Pitter's. My impression is that it is better than this. But my judgment can no longer be trusted"; adding that he is reading "the typescript of an interesting autobiography by Freya Stark."
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