Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon
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In January 1957 Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), poet and author, began corresponding with Mother Margaret Mary (McFarlin) of the Convent of the Assumption, a correspondence which led directly to his being received into the Roman Catholic Church in August of that year.
From the guide to the Siegfried Sassoon: Letters to Mother Margaret Mary and related papers, 1957-1970, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
Epithet: author and poet
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000688.0x000194
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886-1967), poet and author.
From the guide to the Siegfried Sassoon: Letters to him, c.1909-1967, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
From the guide to the Siegfried Sassoon: Letters to him, c.1920-1960, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886-1967), poet and author, married Hester Gatty (b. 1906) in 1933 and had a son, George. After some years Hester took up residency on the island of Mull, with occasional visits to Siegfried at Heytesbury House, Wiltshire. Her brother Richard and his wife Pamela lived at Pepper Arden, Northallerton, Yorkshire, and their daughter Jessica was Sassoon's god-daughter.
From the guide to the Siegfried and Hester Sassoon: Letters to the Gatty Family, 1950-1966, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886-1967), poet, was an undergraduate at Clare College, Cambridge, 1905-1907, and was made an Honorary Fellow in 1953. His Cambridge friends included the librarian A.T. Bartholomew (1882-1933) and the surgeon and bibliographer Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982). Keynes published A Bibliography of Siegfried Sassoon (London, 1962) and collected Sassoon's books, manuscripts and letters.
From the guide to the Siegfried Sassoon: Correspondence and Papers, 1917-1959, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)
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- Soviet Union, Asia (as recorded)
