Notebook containing fair copy of poems, but with many later alterations. Title-page with tentative date of 1932, and additional poems to 1935. Some poems are set within a watercolour border. Contents include: Decorated title pages, with quotations: /inside front cover, /1r. Quotations from Bacon and Keats: /1v. Poems: - 'Heaven', with revisions: /2r. - list of poems for inclusion in 'Vigils' and list marked 'miscellaneous & doubtful': /2v. - 'December Stillness': /3r. - 'Presences Perfected': /4r. - 'Revisitation (W.H.R.R.)' [William Halse Rivers Rivers], with revisions: /4v-5r. - 'We shall not all sleep…', with revisions and ink blot: /6r. - 'Everyman', with correction: /7r. - 'A Guide Book to Oblivion', with revisions: /8r. - 'Eyes', with revisions: /9r. - 'Farewell to Youth', with revisions; also doodles of Sassoon's monogram: /10r. - 'Past and Present', with revision: /11r. - 'Childhood Recovered', with revisions: /11v. - 'War Experience Footnote': /12r. - 'Mysteries': /13r. - 'Time will be Memory', with revisions: /14r. - 'The Heart's Paradise': /15r. - 'Prehistoric Burials', with revision: /16r. - 'The Living Word', with revisions: /17r. - 'Credo', previously named 'The Kingdom of Heaven' and 'Creed', with revisions: /18r. - 'World Invisible', previously named 'Intercession': /18r. - untitled, begins 'Strangely through sorrow I hear' (excised): /19r. - untitled, begins 'Will happiness be mine when the restless body tires': /19r. - 'At [Breitenau?] (23 May 1929)', in pencil, text faint; /20r. - 'A Victory': /21r. - 'A Vigil': /21r. & /22r (two distinct works). - 'Beethoven Centenary' (excised): /22r. - 'The Quiet House', with revisions: /23r. - 'Human Histories', with revisions: /24r. - 'Vigils', with revisions: /25r. - untitled, begins 'One petal from a rose' (excised): /26r. - 'To Christina Rossetti' (excised): /26r. - list of poems entitled 'Appendix to S.P.': /26v. - 'Two Old Ladies', previously named 'Forty Years Ago': /27r. - 'Words for the Wordless', previously named 'Mysteries'; with revisions and partly excised: /27v-28r. - 'Resolve', with note 'Muse an absentee!': /29r. - 'November Dusk', with revisions: /30r. - 'The Ultimate Atrocity', with revision: /30v. - 'Messengers', with revisions: /30v. - 'Thoughts in 1932', previously named 'The Road to Ruin' and 'Physic for Complacency'; with revisions: /31r. - 'A Premonition', previously named 'A Pardonable Anticipation', 'Legitimate Prophecy' and 'Logical Anticipation'; with revisions: /31v. - 'News from the War after Next': /31v. - 'Mimic Warfare', previously named 'Mimic Massacre on Salisbury Plain'; with revisions: /32r. - 'An Unveiling', previously named 'The Unveiling'; with revision: /32r. - untitled, begins 'Old, in the mad unthinkable atmosphere': /32v. - 'Reading Blunden's Poems': /33r. - 'First and Last Love', with revisions: /33r. - 'To a 17th Century Platonist': /34r. - 'Blunden's Beech', with revisions: /35r. - 'Rumination by a Wood Fire', with revisions: /35r. - 'The Christian Objective', previously named 'The Church Militant'; with revision: /35v. - 'At the Cenotaph', with revision: /35v. - 'Metamorphosis', with revisions : /36r. - 'The Facts': /36r. - 'Ultimatum', previously named 'Anthropology'; with revision: /36v. - 'The Hour Glass', with revision: /37r. - 'Mimic Death' (title excised), begins 'Just to go out and leave my life behind'; with revisions: /37r. - 'Ode', with revisions: /37v. - 'Museum Piece', previously named 'Tombs of Time' and 'Antiquities'; with revisions: /38r. - 'Large Ideas', with revisions: /38r. - 'The Merciful Knight', with revisions: /39r. - 'Vibrations', previously named 'Vibrations from Past Experience'; with revisions: /41v. - 'Thanksgiving', with revision: /42r. - 'An Emblem': /42r. - 'Long Ago', previously named 'Youth in Spring'; with revisions: /42v. - 'Rediscoverings', previously named 'Dreams Rediscovered'; with revision: /42v. - 'Mind-Meteorology' (excised), with revisions: /43r. - 'Intensified Perception' (excised): /43r. - 'On Edington Hill', with revisions: /43v. - 'Atlas', with revisions: /43v. - 'Property', previously named 'Heytesbury Wood'; with revisions /44r. - 'For a Fly Leaf', with revisions: /44r. - 'Transmigration', previously named 'An Inquiry'; with revisions: /44v. - untitled, begins 'The night air, smelling cold with spring': /44v. - 'The Gains of Good', with revisions: /45r. - 'Again the Dead...': /45r. - list of poems by category 'Prophetical', 'Personal', 'Ghostly' and '?': /45v. - list of words [? with their frequency of use in his poems, 1927-1933]: /46r. - list of poems: /46v. After folio /47v Sassoon used the notebook from the opposite end to record extracts of poetry: - pasted in poem (Shelley's 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'): /back cover inside. - extracts of poems by H. Vaughan, begins 'Vain wits and eyes', J. Dyer, begins 'A little rule, a little sway', and Wordsworth's 'Mutability': /48v. - Shakespeare, 'Troilus to Cressida': /47v. - Shelley, 'Mutability' (sic), begins 'The flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow dies': /47v. NB. Enclosures are housed separately. Foliation is the archivist's.