Head, Henry, 1861-1940 (neurologist)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1861 - 1940
Biography
Head, Henry (1861-1940) neurologist. Wife Ruth (d.1939), née Mayhew
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
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Journal, 8 Jan. 1921-11 July 1922 (with later annotations dated 1926, 1949 & 1967)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/17
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...
Dates:
8 Jan. 1921-11 July 1922 (with later annotations dated 1926, 1949 & 1967)
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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Journal, 2 Aug. 1924-3 Nov. 1924 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/21
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';...
Dates:
2 Aug. 1924-3 Nov. 1924 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
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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Journal, 13 Dec. 1926-11 Mar. 1927 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/24
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...
Dates:
13 Dec. 1926-11 Mar. 1927 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
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, 1922-1931 (circa; undated)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9877/1/1/25
Scope and Contents
Concerning Sassoon visiting Henry and Ruth Head and family news.
Dates:
1922-1931 (circa; undated)
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).
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Letter addressed from the King's Arms Hotel, Dorchester, 15 Jan. 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8483/18
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
15 Jan. 1927
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
Letter (King's Arms Hotel, Dorchester), 14 Jan. 1927 (date inferred; marked 'Friday evening')
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/55
Scope and Contents
Giving news of a trip to Dorchester and of visits to Thomas Hardy and to Ruth and Henry Head.
Dates:
14 Jan. 1927 (date inferred; marked 'Friday evening')
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
Letter (King's Arms Hotel, Dorchester), 16 Jan. 1927 (date inferred; marked 'Tuesday')
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9454/56
Scope and Contents
Giving news of a trip to Dorchester including time spent with Thomas Hardy and Henry and Ruth Head.
Dates:
16 Jan. 1927 (date inferred; marked 'Tuesday')
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).
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Letter to Siegfried Sassoon from 'H.R.H.' [Henry & Ruth Head] (Hartley Court, near Reading) enclosing an advertisement for the Arthur Skemp Memorial Lecture, 13 Nov. 1938
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/8/1/1-2
Scope and Contents
Thanking Sassoon for his letter and commenting on the originality of his proposed lecture at Bristol.
Dates:
13 Nov. 1938
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 Henry Head and Ruth Head née Mayhew (London; Forston House, near Dorchester; Hartley Court, near Reading) to Siegfried Sassoon re comments on Sassoon's books, mutual friends, Henry's health etc, 11 June 1922-26 Aug. 1937 (11 Jun 1922; 19 February, 8 March 1926; 22 March, 29 April, 24 May 1927; 26 March, 7, 8, 22 April, 4, 25 May, 28, 30 Jun 1929; 1, 2 August, 19 September 1930; 30 Jul, 2, 3, 11 September 1936; 26 August 1937)
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9375/364-386
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:
11 June 1922-26 Aug. 1937 (11 Jun 1922; 19 February, 8 March 1926; 22 March, 29 April, 24 May 1927; 26 March, 7, 8, 22 April, 4, 25 May, 28, 30 Jun 1929; 1, 2 August, 19 September 1930; 30 Jul, 2, 3, 11 September 1936; 26 August 1937)
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).
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Poems and 'Autobiographical Notes: mainly in connection with Gosse and Hardy', 1920-1939 (circa; largely 1930s)
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/6/4
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...
Dates:
1920-1939 (circa; largely 1930s)
Conditions Governing Access:
Fragile - please handle with care.
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Typed transcript of a diary entry on Gosse, 1931 (date is inferred)
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/6/4/2
Scope and Contents
Part of a typed transcript of a diary entry, dated 15 April 1931, describing a letter Sassoon received from Ruth Head concerning Edmund Gosse. The entry is repeated in full in the notebook MS Add.9852/6/4, folio 4v. Originally enclosed with MS Add.9852/6/4, inside front cover.
Dates:
1931 (date is inferred)
Conditions Governing Access:
From the File:
Fragile - please handle with care.
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