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In black ink with additions in red and in pencil.

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Correspondence re. Evelyn Hardy's article, 'Thomas Hardy and Horace Moule: Vindication of a suicide', published in the Times Literary Supplement on 23 Jan. 1969.

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Written for the centenary of Hardy's birth. Handwritten by Sassoon in ink; with revisions. Originally inserted inside back cover of MS Add.9852/7/1/3.

Scope and Contents The volume is a grid ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries written in France (at Domvast, Magnicourt and Habarcq) and notes of social engagements upon Sassoon's return to England (after receiving a head wound). Significant diary entries include: /3v-4r. Col. Campbell's lecture on 'the spirit of the bayonet'; /15v-16r. an entry concerning poet 'Bob' [Robert] Nicholls; /27r-27v. notes on the loss of a notebook for 18 June-19 August 1918 and on being wounded in France;...

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries; preparatory notes for poetry and prose; and notes on politics, the economy and industrial conditions (especially in South Wales). The volume also includes: - prose passages: /13v-15r. 'To a Traveller'; 15v-21r. 'On Staying at Max Gate' and visiting Thomas Hardy; /24v, untitled, begins 'the joyous adventure'; /31r. 'Autognosis'; /39r-39v. untitled, begins 'What would happen to a man who fell in love...

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 ruled notebook marked '1922 I' and mostly comprises diary entries, notes from Sassoon's reading; and reflective passages on a variety of subjects. Diary entries include frequent mention of horse racing, and /51v-64r. entries concerning Thomas Hardy and visits to Max Gate. It also includes drafts of poetry: /2v-3r. 'On Beauty'; /4r-4v. 'Visiting Blenheim Palace'; /5r. 'Ducal Survival'; /6r-7r. 'A Ducal Insignificance', later called 'A Ducal Anterior'; /8r-10r....

Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook, marked '1924 III', and mostly comprises diary entries on Sassoon's motoring tour with John Philbin. They include accounts of visits to Garsington (home of Lady Ottoline Morrell) and Max Gate, Dorchester (home of Thomas Hardy), where T.E. Lawrence and H.M. Tomlinson were also guests: /3v-15r, and an account of a stay with Ruth and Henry Head: /17v-18v. The volume also includes: - drafts of poetry: /32v-33v. 'An industrial landscape';...

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 '1928-I' and mostly comprises diary entries. There are notes throughout on the progress of Sassoon's literary work (number of words written). The volume also includes: - drafts of poetry: /1v. Couplets on the subjects of poetry, writing novels and being an author; /133v. 'How A[rnold] B[ennett] reviewed a new volume of The Telephone Directory', later called 'The Paris Telephone Directory'. - a list of literary work...

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,...

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Written at Chapelwood Manor. Received music, asks for cheque-book, only one new review since May 11th, 'The Times Literary Supplement' is the one to look out for, Hardy wrote a nice letter praising the grimmest of the poems, hopes to stay there till June 5th, urges her not to read Bertrand Russell's new book 'it will only irritate you'.

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At Chapelwood Manor; urges her not worry about money and to send him the bills; Times review is a very bad one, and misses the point of the book; Hardy's letter in praise of the book.

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On showing Thomas Hardy the manuscript [of 'Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man'].

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Reading 'Isadora'; accounts of various social engagements including the Russian Ballet, the Reform Club with Arnold Bennett and H.G. Wells, and a trip to Max Gate [home of Thomas Hardy]; has not done much writing.

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Concerning Crosby Gaige, and waiting to hear if 'B.R.' [Bruce Rogers] would print his poems; Sassoon becoming stand-offish and philosophical; also giving news of Henry Head (now an invalid) and 'T.H.' [Thomas Hardy] (venerates Hardy above all living and most dead writers).

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With five press cuttings enclosed.

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Glad Allen likes 'Tess': 'I love her; but the story has been out of my hands for several months, and must stand as written.'

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Giving news of a trip to Dorchester and of visits to Thomas Hardy and to Ruth and Henry Head.

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Giving news of a trip to Dorchester including time spent with Thomas Hardy and Henry and Ruth Head.

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Originally inside front cover of the notebook at MS Add.9852/8/2.

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...

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 The volume comprises notes on George Meredith and Thomas Hardy, diary entries and a small number of poetical drafts. It includes: - quotations from Meredith and Hardy: /1*. - list of dates of occasions spent with Hardy: /1*(v). - notes on Hardy: /1-30, /90, /92. - drafts of poems: /98. untitled, begins 'I saw the future of my faithful room'; /99. 'The Onlooker'; /100. 'The Guardians'. - notes on Meredith: /122-102 (these run from the back page of the notebook). Two...

Scope and Contents This notebook containing poetical drafts and autobiographical notes on Edmund Gosse, Ralph Hodgson, and Thomas Hardy. It also includes further prose and transcript-type diary entries. The notebook was used from both ends; after folio 22 entries continue from the back. The title page is illustrated with a heart emblem above the words, 'My heart ever faithful'. Contents:Notes and prose drafts on Gosse: /1v-6v. These include: - 'Outline for chapter 6', which was to contain sections...