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Journal, 9 Dec. 1925-9 June 1926 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/22

Scope and Contents

The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1925-III, 1926-I' and mostly comprises diary entries written while Sassoon was living at 23 Campden Hill Square, London.

Diary entries include passages on: /8r. a biography of Thomas Hardy; /10r-11r. the death and funeral of his uncle Hamo Thornycroft; /16r-16v, /117r. Robert Graves; /39v-41v. entries concerning his War experience; /48r-48v. on meeting Sean O'Casey; /51. Virginia Woolf; /77r-109r. on the coal miner's strike; and frequent mention of Edmund and Nellie Gosse, Ruth and Henry Head, Lady Desborough, Frankie Schuster, Gabriel Atkin and Glen Byam Shaw.

The volume also includes:

- a list of locations of nights spent away from home: /2r.

-a list of 'People who came to 23 Campden Hill Square': /2v.

- pasted in press cuttings: /45r. concerning the publication of Sassoon's recent poems; /76v. advertisement for 'Satirical Poems'.

- an extract from a letter from Lady Ottoline Morrell: /117v.

- a list of painters and selected paintings by them: /123r.

N.B. Detached folios are to be found in a separate envelope. The foliation is the archivist's.

Dates

  • 9 Dec. 1925-9 June 1926 (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 at http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-09852-00001-00022/1. The original item is currently unavailable for consultation due to its poor physical condition.

Extent

1 volume(s) (1 volume (maroon card covers, patterned endpapers, elasticated tie, 124 ff.); 1 envelope paper) : paper

1 envelope(s) (1 volume (maroon card covers, patterned endpapers, elasticated tie, 124 ff.); 1 envelope paper)

Language of Materials

English