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Siegfried Sassoon: Letters to Glen Byam Shaw.

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454

Scope and Contents

This collection contains 373 letters, notes and postcards from Sassoon to Byam Shaw, 1924-1966; some with additional enclosures. Many have inferred dates written in pencil [by Hart-Davis]. It includes a number of items received by Sassoon and perhaps then forwarded on to Shaw, e.g. MS Add.9454/86-90; these are listed chronologically where not clearly associated with a particular letter. Undated letters are numbered from /369-373. All letters are from Sassoon to Shaw unless otherwise stated.

Dates

  • Creation: 1924-1966

Creator

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

373 item(s) (373 letters paper) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased, 2002

Related Materials

Letters from Byam Shaw to Sassoon, 1925-1967, are at Add.8889/3/41-138. An outline of other collections of Sassoon material held by the Cambridge University Library Manuscripts Department is to be found online at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/sassoon.html. Some detailed catalogues to these collections may be found at the Archives Hub website: http://archiveshub.ac.uk/. Notable is the collection at MS Add.9852: Papers of Siegfried Sassoon.

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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