DENNIS SILK
Dennis Silk was one of Sassoon’s closest friends in later life, and their friendship was bonded by a love of literature and a mutual devotion to the game of cricket. This is shown above, where Blunden, Sassoon and Silk listen to commentary of the test match on the radio, as well as in their correspondence. They met in late May 1953 at Fenner’s cricket ground in Cambridge, and enjoyed fourteen years of friendship at the end of Sassoon’s life. Silk would spend holidays at Heytesbury and they would stay up for hours talking in Sassoon’s library.
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