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Siegfried Sassoon collection of papers

Title: Siegfried Sassoon collection of papers, [1905]-1975 bulk (1915-1951).
Author: Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
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Description

669 items.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Correspondence.

Note

Consult the Berg Collection staff for additional unprocessed material, including approx. 400 letters by and to the author.

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Biography (note)

Siegfried Sassoon was a British novelist, poet, and biographer.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. Former owners include Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Leonard Clark, W. T. H. Howe, and Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong. The bound manuscript of "Picture-show and Other Poems" is inscribed by the author to Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell.

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Cataloged

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Sassoon

Author

Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.

Title

Siegfried Sassoon collection of papers, [1905]-1975 bulk (1915-1951).

Summary

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence by and about the author, as well as portraits and pictorial works. The collection includes holograph poems, as well as manuscripts and a typescript about the author and his works by Joe Randolph Ackerley, Robert Graves, and Humbert Wolfe. It also contains poems by Frank Prewett copied in the author's hand. The correspondence includes letters written by the author, from [1905] to 1964, to Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, Gabriel Atkin, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Robert Graves, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Thomas Moult, Teresa Sassoon, Edith Sitwell, Virginia Woolf, and others; as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1918 to 1975, between various correspondents, including Felicitas Corrigan, Leonard Clark, Robert Graves, James Burton Pond, James B. Pinker and Son, and others. There are letters to Sassoon from Christopher Hassall, Robert Graves, Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, Hamo Sassoon, Glen Byam Shaw, Frank Arthur Swinnerton, Stephen Tennant, Margaret Turnbell, Doris Westwood, and others, dating from [1916?] to 1963.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

Siegfried Sassoon was a British novelist, poet, and biographer.

Indexes

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Local Note

Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967.

Atkin, Gabriel.

Clark, Leonard.

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.

Corrigan, Felicitas.

Gawsworth, John, 1912-1970.

Graves, Robert, 1895-1985.

Hassall, Christopher, 1912-1963.

Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953.

Moult, Thomas.

Nichols, Robert, 1893-1944.

Pond, James B. (James Burton), 1838-1903.

Prewett, Frank, 1893-1962.

Sassoon, Hamo.

Sassoon, Teresa.

Shaw, Glen Byam.

Sitwell, Edith, Dame, 1887-1964.

Swinnerton, Frank, 1884-1982.

Tennant, Stephen, 1906-1987.

Turnbull, Margaret, -1942.

Westwood, Doris.

Wolfe, Humbert, 1885-1940.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Clark, Leonard. Former owner

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962. Former owner

Gawsworth, John, 1912-1970. Former owner

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner

Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir, 1872-1953. Former owner

James B. Pinker and Son.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Sassoon

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