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Concerning a visit from [Nellie] Burton, an anecdote about cutting [Robert] Graves down to size, sending tea to Sassoon in Syracuse and news of books etc.

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Describing [Robert] Graves as an awful cad, on being glad Sassoon was staying longer, and giving news (of a planned trip to Winchester).

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Written at Rouen; glad Robert Graves won't go back to trenches; will be glad to get up the line to his battalion; requesting warm clothes.

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Sassoon with the 2nd Royal Welch Fusiliers, thanks for parcels, requests safety razors, Robert [Grave]'s new poems ('Careers' very good), can't think independently out here, war is a most deadening performance.

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Letters from many American and English poets and scholars, 1940-80; occasional manuscripts and typescripts of poetry; 18 letters on The Sandpipers; and a collection of letters of poets and writers, 1856-c.1950.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Minutes, accounts, lists of books recommended and considered, letters from English and French committee members and prizewinners, and newscuttings. Letters from prizewinners: Percy Lubbock, Mary Webb (6), Radclyffe Hall, Virginia Woolf, H.M. Tomlinson, Charles Morgan (7), Stella Gibbons/Webb (4), Elizabeth Jenkins (2), L.H. Myers (2), Margaret Lane, Richard Church (2), and Robert Graves. Letters from French prizewinners: Joseph Kessel, François Mauriac, Marion Gilbert (2), étienne Burnet...

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Sympathising with Sassoon over 'that experience with the Sunday Express'; on being pleased that Sassoon had 'gone over to the Roman Church'; referring to their meeting at Oundle; mentioning that they had had Alec Guinness to visit that summer: 'a wonderfully nice man', and that he hoped the reappearance of 'Goodbye [to all That]' would not 'bother' Sassoon: 'my admiration & affection displayed there for you came out very strongly when I re-read it'.

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Concerning Sassoon's Flixecourt work, their meeting there and (in verse entitled 'To S.S.') a plan for a 'jolly' after the war. This item was removed from the back cover of MS Add.9852/1/6.

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On returning to War (to Limerick), 'It was the only thing I could do'; on the reprint and sales of his poetry; expects his own death by Easter; has material for a new book of poems; has been on leave and feels younger since Craiglockhart.

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Correspondents include Mary Adams, Margaret Gardiner Bernal, Hugh Dalton, Edith B. Loeb, Robert Graves, and Cycill Tomrley.

Scope and Contents The volume contains extracts of verse and prose by various writers, including three poems and a letter in verse by Robert Graves in Sassoon's hand. It contains extracts from the following works: - 'Phaedo' by Plato: /1. - Plato beginning 'But when the soul giveth heed with her proper faculty': /2r. - Shelley's 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty': /2r. - Plato's 'Symposium': /2v. - Wordsworth, beginning 'Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge': /2v. - '[The Confessions of]...

Scope and Contents The volume contains diary entries for 30 Sep. 1927 - 21 May 1928, transcribed by Sassoon from his original diaries at MS Add.9852/1/26-27. The entries are heavily abridged and often reworked, with occasional annotations. Entries are arranged in two columns, numbered consecutively. The diary chiefly concerns Sassoon's relationship with Stephen Tennant, with frequent mention of the progress of his literary work, and entries on the deaths of Thomas Hardy (/23r-28r) and Edmund Gosse...

Scope and Contents Notebook used by Sassoon to record his incoming and outgoing finances. It appears to have been used sporadically and includes lists of dividends, expenditure (headings include 'Expenditure: Self. 1922' and 'Keep of horses'), and income (headings include 'Money for Poetry', and 'Sales of Books'). Sassoon also lists money given to friends, with columns headed 'G.A.' [Gabriel Atkin] (folio /4v) and 'G's Allowance' (folio /10v), and a note on a payment made to Robert Graves to enable him to move...

Scope and Contents Notebook comprising fair copies, with some revisions, of 'Poems: by Siegfried Sassoon 1916' and 'Poems: 1917-18' (including some earlier poems dated 1908-1915). It appears to be Sassoon's own collection of his war poetry. The first poems in each section are numbered and some pages have been torn out by Sassoon, leaving an incomplete sequence; later poems are unnumbered. Many are dated, with details of their publication sometimes given. Contents: 'Poems: by Siegfried...

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Thanking him for a note, on leave until June convalescing with success, glad Festing Jones saw R.G. [Robert Graves], [shoulder] wound has healed well, expects to return to France in August, convinced are losing [the War] and 'that all this loss of life is sheer waste'.

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From 'Time and Tide'; with strong criticism of Graves' portrayal of Sassoon and Blunden.

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This series includes sets of reviews of many of Sassoon's prose and poetry books; press cuttings of poems or articles by Sassoon printed in the media; cuttings relating to Sassoon more generally, including a copy of an obituary; cuttings concerning Edith Sitwell, David and Albert Sassoon, Robert Graves, Esra Pound, Oliver Gatty, and the death of T.E. Lawrence; cuttings concerning the war and pacifism; and a selection of other press cuttings preserved by Sassoon.

Scope and Contents Two scripts (one 'Not checked as recorded', the other 'Checked as recorded') of the BBC Radio 3 programme 'Robert Graves: A Story Worth the Telling', written and presented by Mole. Duplicated typescript. Also present is a quantity of other material relating to the programme and to Graves, including autograph and typescript notes by Mole; 'Discovering Robert Graves' (test by Mole, corrected typescript); letters to Mole from John Cotton, Patric Dickinson (with a poem, 'A bit from an old...

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Cuttings of reviews and press articles, chiefly from Durrant's Press Agency. Many list Sassoon or Faber and Faber as clients but some were clearly collated by Egremont during his own research.