Deacon, Gladys, d 1977 (Duchess of Marlborough)
Person
Dates
- Existence: d 1977
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
File — Box: MS Add.9375/260-664: Box 2
Letter from [Gladys Duchess of Marlborough] (Carlton House Terrace, London) to Siegfried Sassoon re invitation to tea or dinner, 24 Feb. 1930
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9375/623
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
A collection of 1094 letters, postcards and other items known as 'Sassoon's residual correspondence' although it does also include a number of items addressed to other persons particularly to his wife, Hester, and his mother, Theresa Thornycroft.
Dates:
24 Feb. 1930
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
Letter from Gladys Marlborough (Carlton Hotel, London) to Siegfried Sassoon, 1 Nov. 1933
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/9/4/15
Scope and Contents
Congratulating Sassoon on his engagement - 'It is difficult for me after what I have gone through to believe in "wedded bliss", still I wish it to you, full and splendid and enduring' - and inviting Sassoon to meet her again.
Dates:
1 Nov. 1933
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).