Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Correspondence received by Massie on Liberal politics, women's suffrage, biblical studies, and education. Notable correspondents include the politicians Joseph Chamberlain, William Gladstone and Arthur Wellesley Peel, and the suffragist Millicent Fawcett. The correspondence is arranged in alphabetical order by name of sender with 'miscellanea' placed at the end of the correspondence. The whole collection has been calendared to provide short summaries of the contents, including some direct...

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....

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Declining invitation

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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.

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Re Stephen Tennant's health, including letter to Stephen 4 January 1931 (MS Add. 8889/3/160).

Scope and Contents Notebook comprising poetical drafts together with notes on George Meredith, diary entries, and some text relating to Wilfred Owen and Charlotte Mew. The notebook was used from both ends; it largely contains poetical drafts until folio 51, after which entries continue from the back page, comprising the notes on Meredith and additional material. Quotation from Byron's 'Don Juan': /inside front cover. Drafts of poems: - Two drafts of 'Playmates', 3 Feb....