![SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Nine autograph picture postcards signed to his mother, Georgina Theresa Sassoon, Campden Hill Square, 54 Tufton Street, Fitz House, Nancy and Munich, 21 June [1923] - 15 June [1933]. Provenance: sale of items from his library, Sotheby's London, 18 July 1991, lot 120, part.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/CSK/2006_CSK_04074_0217_000(010057).jpg?w=1)
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SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967). Nine autograph picture postcards signed to his mother, Georgina Theresa Sassoon, Campden Hill Square, 54 Tufton Street, Fitz House, Nancy and Munich, 21 June [1923] - 15 June [1933]. Provenance: sale of items from his library, Sotheby's London, 18 July 1991, lot 120, part.
A CHARMING SERIES OF POSTCARDS sent to Weirleigh from London and the continent. Their tone reflects Sassoon's fond affection for his mother and his childhood home, 'will be down on Sat.y afternoon & stay till Tuesday. Hope it will keep fine & we can go [on] a little expedition'; 'nearly 2 years since I brought pussy to Paddock Wood in his little basket! Bless him for being a good cat'. His frequent visits 'underlined for him the distance between "then and now"' (John Stuart Roberts, Siegfried Sassoon, p.206), evoking memories of childhood, 'I go down to Weirleigh and unlock certain dusty cupboards in my mind, and take out the faded manucripts which belong to mental states which I have outlived and outgrown' (ibid).
Sassoon's postcard of 1925 is sent from 54 Tufton Street. 'Am staying here as the Turners are away & I feel like being quiet. London is quite pleasant & the Queen's Hall Concerts are a comfort'. Sassoon had made an arrangement with Walter J. Turner to rent two small rooms, a reciprocal arrangement in which he lent them money to buy a house. Two postcards date from trips abroad; from Munich, when Sassoon made a roadtrip in his new Chrysler in 1927 with Freddie Schuster, and September 1928 -- in August Sassoon had left for the continent in his new red Packard, followed by Stephen Tennant and his former nanny, Mrs Trusler; they journeyed through Garmisch to Italy, where they were to see Edith Sitwell's Façade performed in Siena. (9)
A CHARMING SERIES OF POSTCARDS sent to Weirleigh from London and the continent. Their tone reflects Sassoon's fond affection for his mother and his childhood home, 'will be down on Sat.y afternoon & stay till Tuesday. Hope it will keep fine & we can go [on] a little expedition'; 'nearly 2 years since I brought pussy to Paddock Wood in his little basket! Bless him for being a good cat'. His frequent visits 'underlined for him the distance between "then and now"' (John Stuart Roberts, Siegfried Sassoon, p.206), evoking memories of childhood, 'I go down to Weirleigh and unlock certain dusty cupboards in my mind, and take out the faded manucripts which belong to mental states which I have outlived and outgrown' (ibid).
Sassoon's postcard of 1925 is sent from 54 Tufton Street. 'Am staying here as the Turners are away & I feel like being quiet. London is quite pleasant & the Queen's Hall Concerts are a comfort'. Sassoon had made an arrangement with Walter J. Turner to rent two small rooms, a reciprocal arrangement in which he lent them money to buy a house. Two postcards date from trips abroad; from Munich, when Sassoon made a roadtrip in his new Chrysler in 1927 with Freddie Schuster, and September 1928 -- in August Sassoon had left for the continent in his new red Packard, followed by Stephen Tennant and his former nanny, Mrs Trusler; they journeyed through Garmisch to Italy, where they were to see Edith Sitwell's Façade performed in Siena. (9)
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