Journal, 13 Dec. 1926-11 Mar. 1927 (with some later annotations and scoring out in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
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 Owen's poem 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'; /84v-86r & /102v-103r. trips to Oxford to see Glen Byam Shaw perform; and passages relating to his friendships with Ben Nichols, Edmund Gosse, Edith and Obsert Sitwell, and E.M. Forster, among others.
The volume also includes:
- a list of locations of nights spent away from home: /1v.
- an analysis of the time taken to fill journal volumes: /2r.
- lists of 'Books given away this Christmas': /32v-33r.
- copies of letters from Sassoon's nephews Leo and Pat Sassoon re Christmas gifts and family news: /42v-43r; and of letters from Robert and Nancy [Graves]: /69v.
- pasted in photograph of 'Mother's cat Jack': /78v.
- pasted in press cutting of an advertisement for the 'Mercury Book' (poetry anthology): /91v.
- a draft of a poem 'For an Album': /102v.
N.B. A detached folio is to be found in a separate envelope. The foliation is the archivist's.
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 at http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-09852-00001-00024/1. 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, 123 ff.); 1 envelope paper) : paper
1 envelope(s) (1 volume (maroon card covers, patterned endpapers, elasticated tie, 123 ff.); 1 envelope paper)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Both the covers are cracked. Folio /83 is detached. Folio /88 has been partially cut away. There are missing folios between folios /92-93 and /108-109.
- Behrman, Samuel Nathaniel, 1893-1973 (playwright and essayist)
- Blunden, Edmund Charles, 1896-1974 (poet)
- Forster, Edward Morgan, 1879-1970 (novelist and critic)
- Gaige, Crosby, 1882-1949 (American publisher)
- Gosse, Sir Edmund William, 1849-1928 (Knight, writer)
- Graves, Robert von Ranke, 1895-1985 (poet and author)
- Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 (novelist and poet)
- Head, Henry, 1861-1940 (neurologist)
- Owen, Wilfred Edward Salter, 1893-1918 (poet)
- Shaw, Glencairn Alexander Byam, 1904-1986 (actor and stage director)
- Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa, 1887-1964 (poet, critic and eccentric)
- Sitwell, Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell, 1892-1969 (5th Baronet Sitwell and author)
- Speed, Harold, 1872-1957 (painter and Siegfried Sassoon's landlord)
- Yeats, William Butler, 1865-1939 (poet and playwright)
Creator
- From the Fonds: Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine, 1886-1967 (poet and author) (Person)
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