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Hassall died intestate. His working papers were taken to the Royal Society of Literature by his assistant Gillian Paterson, who arranged and (presumably) listed them. They were bought by CUL from Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1992. They were housed in paper box files 1 25 and cartons A D, as listed. They have now been re boxed, in 28 boxes and one packet, which has involved some reorganisation of the material and hence some rearrangement and re numbering of the original list.

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Recounting his travels with Stephen Tennant and 'Nannie' (Rebecca Trusler); includes drawings. With two enclosures.

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 '1928-II', mostly comprising diary entries. It also includes: - a note of the sales figures of 'Memoirs': /133r. - 'Names from a hospital subscription list': /136v. - prose passages: /129v-130v. 'Comic History of an Author'; /137v. Untitled, begins 'Sauntering in the sultry summer dusk'; /131v. 'A maxim learned from Hardy'. - drafts of poetry: /132r-132v. 'A note of Interrogation'; /135r....

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...

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1929.II.1930.I' and mostly comprises diary entries and reflective passages. It also includes: - notes on the reception of Robert Graves's 'Goodbye to all that': /128v-129r. - notes on a visit to Max Gate and a conversation while at tea and lunch with W.B. Yeats: /133r-136v. - a note of the sales figures for 'Memoirs': /2v. - 'list of things to be done in the first four weeks after my return...

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1930.II' and mostly comprises diary entries. It also includes: - a list of persons to whom copies of 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer' were sent: /126v-127r. - a list of the places in which Sassoon was for his birthdays 1910-30: /23v. - notes on obtaining a resident doctor for Tennant: /127v-128r. - a sketch of a house drawn around a press cutting: /128r. - copies letters from a...

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1931' and mostly comprises diary entries and notes of social engagements. Diary entries were written in Ascona, Switzerland and in England, and concern Sassoon's writing and his relationship with Stephen Tennant, with mention also of Arnold Bennett, William Walton, Rex Whistler, and Max Meyerfield, among others. The volume also includes: - lists of social engagements and of locations of nights spent away from home: /2r-2v. ...

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The volume is a ruled notebook and almost entirely comprises diary entries. It also includes: a verse sent to Stephan Tennant on Christmas Day, 1931 based on King Lear: /47r-47v; and a list of locations of nights spent away from home: /1v-2r.

N.B. There are no loose enclosures or detached folios. The foliation is the archivist's.

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1932' and mostly comprises diary entries. It also includes: - draft of a poem 'On being asked to write 4000 words "revealing" Thomas Hardy': /2r. - quotations: /1v. Warwick, 'Resolved Meditations'; /1v. R. Browning, begins 'A Greek hero fears exceedingly'; /1v. Swinburne, begins 'Hath not pity power on thee to Save'; /2v. Shakespeare, 'One that loved' and 'When in the Chronicle of wasted time'; /2v. Sassoon, 'Alone,...

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook and consists almost entirely of diary entries.It also includes: - watercolour frontispiece of a male figure walking up a flights of stairs entitled 'Memoirs of a Bore (1932)': /2r. - pasted in advertisement (press cutting) seeking the name of the poem by Sassoon which includes the line 'Look down; And swear by the green of the grass, you will never forget': /1v. - List of social engagements: /2v. N.B....

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries. It also includes: - a frontispiece constructed from various cuttings and reading 'The Original Weekly Journal; With fresh Advices, Foreign and Domestick; Life; The Road to Ruin by Sassoon; Opinions; Secret Self': /2r. - copies of correspondence: /17v-18r. From Sassoon to Stephen Tennant re their relationship and requesting a response to his letters; /91v-92r. Between Sassoon and Stephen...

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Thanking Sassoon for a poem, enclosing a drawing 'of her mental attitude', and discussing Stephen Tennant's aptitude for drawing and design.

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Concerning an article by Blunden, Stephen Tennant's drawings of orchids, and family news.

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Concerning Stephen [Tennant]'s recovery from illness and giving news (Michael Sassoon had bought a farm; a fan had sent a book of bad verse).

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Concerning an outbreak of influenza and its effects on her domestic staff, and improvements in Stephen Tennant's health. Note: the two folios of the letter are written in different inks but appear continuous.

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On re-reading 'the book' [?'Memoirs of a Fox-hunting man'] and on Stephen [Tennant]'s health.

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Praising Sassoon's book, commenting on Stephen [Tennant]'s poor health and giving domestic news.

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Discussing postcards received [from Sassoon in Italy with Stephen Tennant]. Also concerning music and literature, including a review of Mr Graves' poems which she felt were 'crazy with conceit'.

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Commenting on a letter received from [Stephen] Tennant about their trip to Naples, and giving news.

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Commenting on Sassoon's trip to Sicily with [Stephen] Tennant and giving news.

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Telling Sassoon of a letter she had received from [Stephen] Tennant and giving news (of a gale, the cats, Hamo Sassoon, etc.). Includes sketch of three cats.

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Commenting on a postcard or photograph of Sassoon's trip abroad, asking where he and Stephen [Tennant] were, and giving news.

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Mentioning news received from [Stephen] Tennant and Sassoon's trip to Sicily. Also concerning [Robert] Graves' book ['Goodbye to all That'] which she had not read but had heard 'spoken of with disgust'.