Siegfried Sassoon letters, 1919-1955.

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Siegfried Sassoon letters, 1919-1955.

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The collection consists of nine letters: to Dear sir [H.P. de Lima], 28 Jan. 1919, asking for details about a proposed American lecture tour; also, eight letters to Dr. Lutz Weltmann, 1939-1955, about various aspects of his work, including permission to use his name, agreeing to allow translations of his work in German to be sent for publication, concerning an article about Sassoon, agreeing to guarantee a bank loan to purchase a house, declining to write an article on Goethe, agreeing to be patron of an unspecified magazine venture, and comments about a BBC program.

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Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967

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Poet and writer Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 at Weirleigh, near Matfield in Kent. His mother, Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, was from a prominent family of sculptors and artists, while his father, Alfred Ezra Sassoon, came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. His father left home when he was seven and died soon after, so Siegfried and his brothers, Michael and Hamo, were raised solely by their mother. Educated at Marlborough College (1902-4), Sassoon read law at Cl...

Weltmann, Lutz, 1901-

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Lima, H. P. de

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