Letters, a press cutting, speeches and printed emphemera concerning honorary degrees conferred at the University of Liverpool, 1931, and at Oxford, 1965, 1931-1965
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
- 1931-1965
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
11 item(s) (11 items in 2 folders paper) : paper
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- From the Fonds: Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine, 1886-1967 (poet and author) (Person)
Repository Details
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