*Richard Laurence Sassoon (1934–2017); B.A. 1955, Yale College; attended the Sorbonne, 1955–6; dated SP, 1954–6. Sassoon was born in Paris, and raised in Tryon, North Carolina. There are very few letters from SP to Sassoon. SP biographer Andrew Wilson reports in his biography Mad Girl’s Love Song (2013) that Sassoon told him ‘Sylvia and I did correspond a lot and, long ago, visiting my parents’ house, I looked in the attic in a trunk where I kept her letters and they were not there, which is a total mystery.’ There are many letters from Sassoon to SP held by Lilly Library.