Meiklejohn, Sir Roderick Sinclair, 1876-1962 (Knight, civil servant)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1876 - 1962
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
File
Journal, 5 Dec. 1916-11 Feb. 1917 (diary entries start on 22 December 1916)
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/8
Scope and Contents
The volume is a ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries written while Sassoon was at the Regimental Depot in Litherland. The diary entries include occasional references to Robert [Graves] and his poetry (e.g. /2r, /18r, /25r and /40v). The volume also includes: - lists of members of his section and their fates: /1v. - drafts of poetry: /6r. untitled, begins 'On pain of death let no man name death to me'; /14v-15r. 'The dead soldiers',...
Dates:
5 Dec. 1916-11 Feb. 1917 (diary entries start on 22 December 1916)
Conditions Governing Access:
This notebook has been digitised and can be viewed in full on the Cambridge Digital Library. The original item is currently unavailable for consultation due to its poor physical condition.
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Letter addressed from 54 Tufton St., 6 May 1925
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8484/5
Scope and Contents
Is enjoying a positive review by J.C. Squire of 'Selected Poems'; has stayed with the Poet Laureate [Robert Seymour Bridges] and got on well with him; also gives news of Gabriel [Atkin], Roderick [Meiklejohn] and the Contemporary Art Society.
Dates:
6 May 1925
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).
File
Letter from Roderick Meiklejohn (London) to Siegfried Sassoon congratulating him on receiving the Queen's Medal, 30 June 1957
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9375/1028
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:
30 June 1957
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).
File
Letter from Roderick Meiklejohn to Siegfried Sassoon, 1 Jan. 1951
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/9/7/8
Scope and Contents
Congratulating Sassoon on his CBE but noting that he did not regard it as an adequate recognition of the distinction Sassoon's poetry and prose deserved.
Dates:
1 Jan. 1951
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).
File
Letter from Roderick Meiklejohn to Siegfried Sassoon, 8 Nov. 1933
File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/9/4/29
Scope and Contents
Wishing Sassoon 'all possible happiness' on his engagement.
Dates:
8 Nov. 1933
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).
Series
Letters from Roderick Meiklejohn (London and Venice) to Siegfried Sassoon re personal news, 14 May 1917-15 Apr. 1926 (14 May 1917; 28 September 1923; 15 April 1926)
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9375/640-42
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:
14 May 1917-15 Apr. 1926 (14 May 1917; 28 September 1923; 15 April 1926)
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).
Item
Notebook, 1917-1918, 1917-1918
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/6/3
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing poetical drafts (mostly dated 1918), autobiographical notes or prose drafts, with some diary entries. Contents include: - a list of places Sassoon was posted with the 25th Battalion R.W.F. [Royal Welch Fusiliers], Dec. 1917-18 July 1918: /inside front cover. - drafts of poetry: /1v. untitled, begins 'Birds have their singing time' (poem is excised); /2r. 'I Stood with the Dead', 18 June 1918; /3r, /14r-15r. 'Flamingoes' (sic); /3v. 'Near Port Said'...
Dates:
1917-1918
Conditions Governing Access:
This notebook has been digitised and can be viewed in full on the Cambridge Digital Library. The original item is fragile and is currently unavailable for consultation.