Typed letter signed : [London], to [Siegfried] Sassoon, 1939 Nov. 28.

Record ID: 
373461
Accession number: 
MA 5149.1
Author: 
Rathkey, W. A.
Credit: 
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes: 

On embossed letterhead: "14, Oxford Road, / Kilburn, N.W.6. / Maida Vale 3972."
Laid in at the front of W.A. Rathkey's carbon typescript of Nursery Crimes, cataloged separately as MA 5149.

Summary: 

Presenting this "typescript copy of [his] satirical verses" [Nursery Crimes] to Siegfried Sassoon; discussing his difficulties in finding a publisher for the volume; remarking that he thinks Sassoon and [Wilfred] Owen "are responsible for a good many of the conscientious objectors now facing tribunals."

Provenance: 
Kenneth A. Lohf.