Manuscript Letters to Glen Byam Shaw

Item author: Siegfried Sassoon
Item date: 1924 - 1966
Grant Value: 15,000
Item cost: 30,000
Item date acquired: 2002
Item institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

An important collection of 366 letters to one of Sassoon's closest friends, full of details of daily life, sketches, caricatures, and with postcards, photographs and newspaper cuttings enclosed. The early letters report the progress of the writing of Memoirs of a fox -hunting man, which had been inspired by Sassoon's friendship with Byam Shaw