Journal, 31 July 1931-16 Oct. 1931 (with some later annotation in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
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.
N.B. Enclosures are to be found in a separate envelope. The foliation is the archivist's.
Dates
- Creation: 31 July 1931-16 Oct. 1931 (with some later annotation in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)
Creator
- From the Fonds: Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine, 1886-1967 (poet and author) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
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.
Extent
1 collection (1 volume (black cloth, front pocket, patterned endpapers, elasticated tie, 68 ff.); 1 envelope paper; photograph)
Language of Materials
English
Subject
Repository Details
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