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Originally enclosing money and a booklet on photographs by Cecil Beaton.

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Chiefly letters of thanks to Meynell for presentation copies. Among the writers are John Arlott, Sydney Cockerell, Alfred Fairbank, Rupert Hart-Davies, Richard De la Mare, and Osbert Sitwell.

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3 autograph letters, signed, to J.M. Keynes. 28 July 1943 and undated.
1 carbon typed letter, signed, from J.M. Keynes. 30 July 1943.

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1 autograph letter, signed, to E.M. Forster. Undated.
To request this document, please use the following call mark: vol. 8/24
1 autograph postcard, signed, to E.M. Forster. 1953.
To request this document, please use the following call mark: 18/Sitwell, O.

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook (marked '1921 Rome' on the front cover) and mostly comprises diary entries, together with preparatory notes for poetry and prose. Diary entries include: /14r-21r. an account of a visit to Renshaw Hall [home of the Sitwells] in September 1921, with comments on Osbert Sitwell; /22r-23v. entries concerning Elgar; entries written /28r. at Tintern Abbey, /28v-30. at Max Gate, home of 'T.H.' [Thomas Hardy], /30v-33v. on a trip to Rome [with Frank...

Scope and Contents The volume is a plain notebook titled 'Journal 1921', written while living at 54 Tufton Street. It is entirely comprised of diary entries in an unusually fair hand together with many later annotations and expurgated sections. It includes: - quotations from Conrad, Sir J. Davies, Pope, Bertrand Russell, Goethe and Stendhal: /1b (r)-1b(v). - list of social engagements: /7r, 8r. - mention of the suicide of young Holloway at Nellie Burton's...

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1924 II' and mostly comprises diary entries, written in London or while staying at The Hut, Bray (home of Frankie Schuster). Diary entries include: /17r. on receiving new poems from Robert Graves; /18r. on the gift of a car from R. Temple; /19r-20r, /24v-25r. on J.C. Squire's offer to publish his poems in an anthology; /26v-29r. on his quarrel with the Sitwells; /42v-44r. on [Edward] Elgar and /45r-45v. Walter Sickert; /55r-57r. on the...

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1925-III, 1926-I' and mostly comprises diary entries written while Sassoon was living at 23 Campden Hill Square, London. Diary entries include passages on: /8r. a biography of Thomas Hardy; /10r-11r. the death and funeral of his uncle Hamo Thornycroft; /16r-16v, /117r. Robert Graves; /39v-41v. entries concerning his War experience; /48r-48v. on meeting Sean O'Casey; /51. Virginia Woolf; /77r-109r. on the coal miner's strike; and frequent...

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1926 II' and mostly comprises diary entries. There are notes throughout on the progress of Sassoon's literary work (number of words written). Diary entries include passages on: /13v-14r, /116v-117r. Edith Sitwell and a feud with Noel Coward; /24r-25r. 'Little [Edmund] Blunden' and Glen [Byam Shaw]; /25v-54r. a visit to France, Switzerland and Italy with the Morrells; /55r, /56v-57r, /63v-64r, /70r. Robert Graves and his relationship with...

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1926-27-I' and mostly comprises diary entries. These include passages on: /27r. showing American publisher Crosby Gaige the manuscript of [Wilfred] Owen's poems; /34r-34v. a visit from Robert Graves; /43v-44r. 'My Landlord' (about Harold Speed); /44v-45v. anecdotes about poets W.B. Yeats and Wordsworth told to him by Edmund Gosse; /54v-67r. visits to Ruth and Henry Head and to Thomas Hardy at Max Gate; /79r. reflections on his influence on Wilfred...

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...

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...

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1929-I' and mostly comprises diary entries. It also includes: - notes of a ?word association game played with Stephen Tennant: /134r, /136r. - notes on the value of the Beer estate: /137r. - drafts of poetry: /130v. 'Past and Present'; /131. Untitled, begins 'I wish old Gosse was here'; /131v-132r. Untitled, begins 'Down the shadowy staircase'; /132v. 'Dining with Osbert Sitwell'; /133v. 'Epigram', couplet; /135r. 'An...

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Back in London, missing Glen [Byam Shaw] but busy writing, Blunden coming to visit, going with the Sitwells for a weekend at Stephen Tennant's country house, Salisbury.

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His letters to Festing Jones a substitute for his journal-writing; also descriptive accounts of a party attended with Frankie Schuster and of various social engagements, with comments on the Sitwells and [his first] meeting with Stephen Tennant.

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Descriptive account of a return visit to London and of a dinner party at Osbert [Sitwell]'s, with diagram of seating arrangements and sketch of diners entitled 'We discuss Arnold Bennett'. Includes mention of Robert Graves' poetry getting 'steadily duller'.

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Recounting Sassoon's travels with Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Enclosing a photograph mounted on card.

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Thanking Sassoon for sending a book of his poems ['The Heart's Journey'] and inviting him to visit to hear her play.

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Letter giving news (had spoken at the Literary Society of University College [?London]; had dined with Osbert [Sitwell]; was due to dine with H.G. Wells). With two enclosures.

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On Shaw's wartime activity, Osbert [?Sitwell], his latest book of poems and life with George; with drawing of 'Uncle Adolphus'. A letter from Osbert Sitwell is enclosed.

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3 autograph letters, signed.
This file also includes a catalogue of an exhibition of French Art, 1914-19, at the Mansard Gallery with a preface by Arnold Bennett, Aug. 1919.

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14 autograph letters signed and 1 typed letter signed, with 1 envelope.

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2 autograph letters signed.

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6 autograph letters signed, 2 of which include notes at foot from 'David'.

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1 autograph letter signed, 1 autograph postcard signed to Clive Bell. 17 Feb. 1945 and 15 Jun. 1947.
1 autograph letter signed to Vanessa Bell. [27 Jul. 1937].
Photocopies of 3 autograph letters signed to Clive Bell. 1941, 1946 and undated.