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Olivier, Edith Maud, 1879-1948 (novelist)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1879 - 1948

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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Journal, 31 July 1931-16 Oct. 1931 (with some later annotation in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/33
Scope and Contents The volume is a ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries. It also includes: - a list of locations of nights spent away from home: /3r-3v. - a list of distances between towns on a driving tour in France: /2v.- pasted in press cuttings: /47v. A personal advertisement asking an acquaintance to write; /54v. re the [British] banking climate. - pasted in note from R. Hooper to Sassoon saying he called, 1 September 1932: /45r....
Dates: 31 July 1931-16 Oct. 1931 (with some later annotation in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: The First World War journals and some post-war journals (MSS Add.9852/1/4-25 and 32) are unavailable for consultation due to their poor physical condition. Digital copies of these items are provided in the Sassoon Journals section of the Cambridge Digital Library, https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon/1. The other journals are available for consultation.
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Journal, 30 Oct. 1931-20 Jan. 1932 (with later annotations in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/34
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 30 Oct. 1931-20 Jan. 1932 (with later annotations in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
Conditions Governing Access: From the Series: The First World War journals and some post-war journals (MSS Add.9852/1/4-25 and 32) are unavailable for consultation due to their poor physical condition. Digital copies of these items are provided in the Sassoon Journals section of the Cambridge Digital Library, https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon/1. The other journals are available for consultation.
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Letter from Edith Olivier, (1879-1948), novelist, (Daye House, Quidhampton, Salisbury), to Siegfried Sassoon, 3 Jan. 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8889/2/9
Scope and Contents

Response to letter from Sassoon, and putting off visit, as schoolmistress friend is coming.

Dates: 3 Jan. 1929
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 from Edith Olivier, (1879-1948), novelist, (no place given) to Siegfried Sassoon enquiring about the health of Stephen Tennant, 1 Feb. 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8889/2/10
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The collection largely comprises letters addressed to Sassoon although there are few other recipients such as Glen Byam Shaw and Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, Siegfried Sassoon's mother. There are also some postcards; draft and unpublished copies of poems; bills; and other related papers.

Dates: 1 Feb. 1929
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 from Edith [Olivier] (Quidhampton, Salisbury), 28 Oct. 1936-1 Nov. 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9877/1/2/2/2-3
Scope and Contents

Congratulating Siegfried and Hester Sassoon on the birth of their son George. Also enclosing a letter from Patience Platen requesting that Sassoon give a second talk to raise funds for the Wilts Rural Music School, as tickets for the first had sold out.

Dates: 28 Oct. 1936-1 Nov. 1936
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).
 Sub-Series

Letters to Katherine Gatty from Edith Olivier, with photographs of Sassoon, 1944 (circa)

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9877/1/5
Scope and Contents

Three letters from Edith Olivier (Quidhampton, Salisbury) to Lady Katherine Gatty, mother of Hester Sassoon (née Gatty); with a set of envelopes. Two photographs of Siegfried Sassoon are included.

Dates: 1944 (circa)
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).