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Correspondence, 1925-1967

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/9

Scope and Contents

This series contains nine bundles of Sassoon's incoming correspondence; approximately 261 items. Personal and business correspondence is intermingled, and the letters are grouped according to subject matter (awards of honorary degrees; 'The Heart's Journey'; Sassoon's engagement; work on a film about T.E. Lawrence; 'The Old Century'; his CBE; and his religious conversion), or correspondent (Katherine Asquith letters). There is also a series of miscellaneous letters. The letters in each series are arranged chronologically, with the earliest first.

Dates

  • 1925-1967

Conditions Governing Access

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).

Extent

10 folder(s)

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

Further Sassoon correspondence is catalogued at MS Add.9852/12/1/3 (letters from Sassoon to his wife, Hester), MS Add.9852/12/2/2 (letters from Sassoon to Katherine Gatty), and MS Add.9852/12/6/1 (copies of letters from Sassoon to Rev. Mother Margaret Mary McFarlin). For further collections held by the Cambridge University Library containing items of Sassoon's correspondence, see: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/sassoon.html.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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