Lot 307
Sassoon, Siegfried. A collection of correspondence relating to the tribute volume compiled by Rupert Hart-Davis and Dennis Silk for SS's 80th birthday, 1965-66. With letters between the compilers on progress with the volume, and from those invited to contribute, including Haro Hodson, Dame Felicitas Corrigan, Mother Margaret Mary, Dom Martin Salmon, George and Hester Sassoon, Monsignor Gilbey, Katharine Asquith, Christopher Hollis and Colin Fenton. Also draft of a letter from Dennis Silk to SS describing their first meeting at a cricket match in May 1953; ALS from Edmund Blunden to SS ; carbon copies of Dennis Silk's letters and photocopies of a number of the contributions. The manuscript contributions (all written out on the same paper) were bound into a single volume by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. This volume was sold at Sothebys on 17th December 2008 for £17,000.
