Siegfried Sassoon: Letters to him from McFarlin, Rev. Mother Margaret Mary, Superior of the Convent of the Assumption, and nuns of Stanbrook Abbey, c.1930s-1960s

In January 1957, Sassoon began corresponding with McFarlin, Rev. Mother Margaret Mary (McFarlin) of the Convent of the Assumption, a correspondence which led directly to his being received into the Roman Catholic Church in August of that year. The collection consists of 570 letters.

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Purchased from Roy Davids Ltd., JUN 2004

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Corresponding letters from Siegfried Sassoon to Rev. Mother Margaret Mary are at MS Add.7935, catalogued at http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0012%2FMS%20Add.7935; the catalogue is also available on the Archives Hub website: http://archiveshub.ac.uk/. An outline of other collections of Sassoon material held by the Cambridge University Library Manuscripts Department is to be found online at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/deptserv/manuscripts/sassoon.html. Notable is the collection at MS Add.9852: Papers of Siegfried Sassoon.