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Wylde, Leslie, d 1935 (friend of Frankie Schuster, known as Anzie)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: d 1935

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

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Journal, 12 Mar. 1927-28 Sep. 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/25
Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1927-II' and mostly comprises diary entries. These include passages on: /48r. meeting Stephen Tennant; /55r-56r, /59v-63r. Robert Graves; /69r-73v. meeting Ellen Terry; /81r-124r. Sassoon's trip to Belgium, France, Austria and Germany with Frankie Schuster, Glen Byam Shaw, John Philbin and Anzie Wylde, with reminiscences about the Great War; and passages relating to the Sitwells, Edmund Blunden, and Edmund Gosse, among others. The journal...
Dates: 12 Mar. 1927-28 Sep. 1927
Conditions Governing Access: This notebook and its enclosures have been digitised and can be viewed in full on the Cambridge Digital Library. The original items are currently unavailable for consultation due to their poor physical condition.
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Journal, 29 Sep. 1927-7 Jan. 1928 (with inserted photographs dating 1926-1927)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/26
Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1927-III' and mostly comprises diary entries (many concern Glen Byam Shaw and Stephen Tennant). It also includes: - prose passages: /27v-30r. 'A letter to Stephen which he will never read'; /74v-76r. 'An example of the way Stephen is discussed and interpreted by the 'Wilsford Party''; /106r-106v. 'Stephen's 'Nannie''. - a list of number of words written: /2r. - a list of persons 'Copies of Heart's Journey...
Dates: 29 Sep. 1927-7 Jan. 1928 (with inserted photographs dating 1926-1927)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: The First World War journals and some post-war journals (MSS Add.9852/1/4-25 and 32) are unavailable for consultation due to their poor physical condition. Digital copies of these items are provided in the Sassoon Journals section of the Cambridge Digital Library, https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon/1. The other journals are available for consultation.
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Journal, 31 July 1931-16 Oct. 1931 (with some later annotation in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/33
Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries. It also includes: - a list of locations of nights spent away from home: /3r-3v. - a list of distances between towns on a driving tour in France: /2v.- pasted in press cuttings: /47v. A personal advertisement asking an acquaintance to write; /54v. re the [British] banking climate. - pasted in note from R. Hooper to Sassoon saying he called, 1 September 1932: /45r....
Dates: 31 July 1931-16 Oct. 1931 (with some later annotation in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: The First World War journals and some post-war journals (MSS Add.9852/1/4-25 and 32) are unavailable for consultation due to their poor physical condition. Digital copies of these items are provided in the Sassoon Journals section of the Cambridge Digital Library, https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon/1. The other journals are available for consultation.
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Letter, 1924 (date inferred; marked 'Wednesday')

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9877/1/1/30
Scope and Contents

Concerning the marriage of [Anzie] Wylde (to painter Wendela Boreel) and giving news.

Dates: 1924 (date inferred; marked 'Wednesday')
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter, Apr. 1927 (date inferred; marked 'Saturday')

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9877/1/1/52
Scope and Contents

Concerning Sassoon's sprained ankle and his stay with [Anzie] Wylde and friends [the Schusters] in the country.

Dates: Apr. 1927 (date inferred; marked 'Saturday')
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter and press cutting, 9 Mar. 1927 (year inferred)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/59
Scope and Contents

Giving news (has been feeling bad; was visited by Anzie Wylde; had a letter from Sam Behrman; on meeting E.M. Forster). A press cutting is enclosed.

Dates: 9 Mar. 1927 (year inferred)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter (The Long White Cloud, Bray-on-Thames), 3 May 1927-4 May 1927 (year inferred; 'Tuesday')

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/63
Scope and Contents

Descriptive account of his stay at the home of Frankie Schuster; also re the death of his aunt Rachel Beer.

Dates: 3 May 1927-4 May 1927 (year inferred; 'Tuesday')
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letter (The Long White Cloud, Bray-on-Thames), 9 May 1927 (year inferred)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/64
Scope and Contents

Descriptive account of his stay at the home of Frankie Schuster and of a visit to Lady Ottoline Morrell at Garsington; also giving financial news.

Dates: 9 May 1927 (year inferred)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Letters and postcards from Leslie Wylde (Bray-on-Thames and Italy) to Siegfried Sassoon re personal news, invitations etc; together with photographs, 29 July 1924-31 Oct. 1932 (29 Jul 1924; 29 December 1925; 31 October 1932; 5 items undated)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9375/967-74
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

A collection of 1094 letters, postcards and other items known as 'Sassoon's residual correspondence' although it does also include a number of items addressed to other persons particularly to his wife, Hester, and his mother, Theresa Thornycroft.

Dates: 29 July 1924-31 Oct. 1932 (29 Jul 1924; 29 December 1925; 31 October 1932; 5 items undated)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notebook, 1941 (date approximate)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/7/2/6
Scope and Contents The volume comprises heavily revised drafts of several chapters of 'The Weald of Youth' and preliminary notes for 'Siegfried's Journey' (here with the provisional title 'Some Experiences of a Soldier Poet'). It also contains (written from reverse) character sketches of Anzie Wylde and Thomas Hardy, and further miscellaneous notes under headings including 'Thoughts on Writing (Aliveness in Literature)'. NB. The final chapter numbers to which the drafts relate are provided in brackets. It...
Dates: 1941 (date approximate)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Notebook entitled 'Transcriptions from Diaries...', Apr. 1929-May 1931 (1929-1931 transcript of 1923-1925 originals)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/2/1
Scope and Contents The volume comprises Sassoon's own transcriptions of his diaries for March-November 1925 (folios /2v-23r) and 8 March 1923 - 19 May 1924 (folios /24r-29r); abridged, with occasional annotations. Entries are arranged in two columns, numbered consecutively. The transcripts for 15-19 May 1924 (folio /58r) match those in Sassoon's diary at MS.Add.9852/1/20; there are no other corresponding diaries in the archive. The 1925 diary includes: /2v. passages on Sassoon's travels abroad with Frankie...
Dates: Apr. 1929-May 1931 (1929-1931 transcript of 1923-1925 originals)
Conditions Governing Access: Fragile, handle with care.