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SASSOON, Siegfried Loraine (1886-1967). Poet and author.
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr & Mrs Smeather, 1 page 8vo with envelope, Heytesbury House, Wiltshire, 4 January 1938. Thanking the Smeathers for their appreciation of 'Sherston's Memoirs and the Old Century',

'... In these day a good book is the last escape from the anxieties which the newspapers provide us with!...'

Sassoon refers to his Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, narrated by George Sherston, a fictionalised version of himself and to The Old Century and Seven More Years, his autobiography.
[No: 26077]

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