Scope and Contents
Letters from C. St J. Pulley, Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature, to Siegfried Sassoon (including circular letters to the Academic Committee of the Royal Society of Literature), with related items including an agenda for a meeting of the Academic Committee, a notice of a luncheon, a volume of printed reports of the Royal Society of Literature annotated by Sassoon, and a letter from Thomas Sturge Moore to Sassoon. The correspondence concerns the award of the Society's Benson Medal in 1939, and Sassoon's consequent resignation as a Fellow of the Society.
Dates
- Creation: 1938-1939
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
11 folio(s) (11 folios and 1 volume paper) : paper
1 volume(s) (11 folios and 1 volume paper)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased, 2008
Bibliography
Subject
- Royal Society of Literature (Organization)
- Moore, Thomas Sturge, 1870-1944 (writer and wood engraver) (Person)
- Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine, 1886-1967 (poet and author) (Person)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
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