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