The salutation is to 'Dearest D's'. The text incorporates four lines of verse 'for E[dmund] B[lunden], beginning "When telling Dennis Silk and Ian Balding ...". With envelope, ddressed to Dennis Silk, and with a letter from Glen Byam Shaw ['Speasey'] to Sassoon, [London], 8 February 1964, annotated by Sassoon, two folios.