Silk, Dennis Raoul Whitehall, 1931-2019 (schoolmaster and cricketer)
Dates
- Existence: 1931 - 2019
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Dennis Silk, 1900-1967 (early-mid 20th century)
Miscellaneous letters, cards and photographs, which Sassoon sent to Mother Margaret with some of his letters. These items have become separated from their covering letters (section /1-345). Identifying the appropriate covering letter might allow the researcher to date the item more accurately.
Dennis Silk, 1957-1975 (mid-late 20th century)
Including letters about his death and appreciations of him and of his work.
Letter from Dennis Silk, (b.1931), schoolmaster, cricketer, (Cambridge) to Siegfried Sassoon re appreciation of ''The Tasking'', 23 Jan. 1955 (year inferred)
The collection largely comprises letters addressed to Sassoon although there are few other recipients such as Glen Byam Shaw and Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, Siegfried Sassoon's mother. There are also some postcards; draft and unpublished copies of poems; bills; and other related papers.
Letter from Dennis Silk (Marlborough College, Wiltshire) to Siegfried Sassoon praising Sassoon's broadcast reading of Sequences, 7 Oct. 1956 (year inferred)
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.
Letter from Dennis Silk (Marlborough) to Siegfried Sassoon congratulating him on receiving the Queen's Medal, June 1957-July 1957 (date inferred)
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.
Review of 'Siegfried Sassoon: Poet's Pilgrimage, edited by Dame Felicitas Corrigan, from the Sunday Telegraph, 5 Aug. 1973
This series includes sets of reviews of many of Sassoon's prose and poetry books; press cuttings of poems or articles by Sassoon printed in the media; cuttings relating to Sassoon more generally, including a copy of an obituary; cuttings concerning Edith Sitwell, David and Albert Sassoon, Robert Graves, Esra Pound, Oliver Gatty, and the death of T.E. Lawrence; cuttings concerning the war and pacifism; and a selection of other press cuttings preserved by Sassoon.
Three letters from Sir Geoffrey Keynes to Dennis Silk, with a printed obituary of Keynes, 1968-1982
25: Brinkley, 30 April 1968; 26: no place, 24 December 1969 (card); 27: Brinkley, 7 March 1979; 28: The Times obituary of Keynes, 1982.
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