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Journal, 29 Jan. 1932-20 Apr. 1932 (with some later annotation in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9852/1/35

Scope and Contents

The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1932' and mostly comprises diary entries.

It also includes:

- draft of a poem 'On being asked to write 4000 words "revealing" Thomas Hardy': /2r.

- quotations: /1v. Warwick, 'Resolved Meditations'; /1v. R. Browning, begins 'A Greek hero fears exceedingly'; /1v. Swinburne, begins 'Hath not pity power on thee to Save'; /2v. Shakespeare, 'One that loved' and 'When in the Chronicle of wasted time'; /2v. Sassoon, 'Alone, the word is life endured and known'.

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

- pasted in press cutting anticipating the publication of a third Sherston volume, provisionally entitled 'Memories of a Literary Man': /2r.

- pasted in road map of parts Salisbury Plain and Wiltshire annotated with a route between Teffont Magna and Wilsford: /back cover inside.

N.B. There are no loose enclosures or detached folios. The foliation is the archivist's.

Dates

  • Creation: 29 Jan. 1932-20 Apr. 1932 (with some later annotation in Siegfried Sassoon's hand)

Creator

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.

Extent

1 volume(s) (1 volume (navy blue cloth covers, front pocket, patterned endpapers, elasticated tie, 87 ff.) paper) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Binding cracked.

Related Materials

For a transcript of this diary by Rupert Hart-Davis, see MS Add.9852/12/7/1/11.

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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