BIB_ID
410349
Accession number
MA 4705.20
Creator
Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.
Display Date
1960.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 12.1 x 14.9 cm
Notes
There is nothing on the item that indicates that it was sent to Sassoon; he is the assumed recipient based on the collection as a whole.
Provenance
Purchased from the bookseller Quaritch at Sotheby's, London, 18 July 1991, lot 25.
Summary
A New Year's card with a poem translated by William Jones from the Persian, beginning "On parent knees, / a naked new-born child." The initial "O" is gilded and contains a floral design.
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