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Fenton, Colin, fl 1955-1961 (author and editor)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: fl 1955 - 1961

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Letter from Colin Fenton, editor and translator, (London) to Siegfried Sassoon re thanks for final version of ''The Tasking'', comments on Siegfried Sassoon's alterations, 15 Jan. 1955

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8889/3/147
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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 There are also some postcards; draft and unpublished copies of poems; bills; and other related papers.

Dates: 15 Jan. 1955
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).
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Letter from Colin Fenton (West Hagley, Worcestershire) to Siegfried Sassoon re enjoyment of Path to Peace, Hodgson's Collected Poems to appear on his 90th birthday, 1961 (date inferred)

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9375/276
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: 1961 (date inferred)
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).