BIB_ID
410397
Accession number
MA 9401.1-5
Creator
Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982.
Display Date
1931-1951.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1991.
Description
1 item (8 pages) ; various sizes + 1 envelope
Notes
This collection was acquired with a collection of letters from Sydney Cockerell to Siegfried Sassoon, cataloged separately as MA 4705.1-20.
Provenance
Purchased at Sotheby's, London, 18 July 1991, lot 25.
Summary
A collection of 5 autograph letters signed, to Siegfried Sassoon; written between 1931 and 1951 from Cranleigh and Grassington; discussing talks and broadcasts he is working on, books he is reading, particularly Sassoon's memoir The Weald of Youth, and personal matters; commenting at length on E.M. Forster and referring to other writers, among them Aldous Huxley and Arnold Bennett. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see related records for more information.
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