Sassoon Journals : Journal, 5 Dec. 1916-11 Feb. 1917

Sassoon Journals

The volume is a ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries written while Sassoon was at the Regimental Depot in Litherland. The diary entries include occasional references to Robert [Graves] and his poetry (e.g. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(5);return false;'>2r</a>, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(37);return false;'>18r</a>, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(51);return false;'>25r</a> and <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(84);return false;'>40v</a>). Contents include:Drafts of poetry:<div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(13);return false;'>6r</a>. untitled, begins 'On pain of death let no man name death to me' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(30);return false;'>14v-15r</a>. 'The dead soldiers', later called 'Enemies' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(34);return false;'>16v-17r</a>. untitled, begins 'When I am in a blaze of lights', [later called 'When I'm among a Blaze of Lights'] <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(47);return false;'>23r-23v</a>. untitled, begins 'England has many heroes' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(64);return false;'>31v-32r</a>. 'The Elgar Violin Concerto', later called 'Enigma Variations' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(73);return false;'>35r-37r</a>. 'Death and Summer', later called 'Serenity' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(114);return false;'>77v</a>. untitled, begins 'I came into the hut and found' </div> Sketches and doodles:<div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(85);return false;'>41r</a>. a steam ship <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(91);return false;'>44r</a>. abstract curved lines <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(92);return false;'>44v</a>. a ?dancer with arms raised <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(96);return false;'>46v</a>. two ?conductors; in the background are four faces and a ?ladder </div> Excerpts from letters:<div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(38);return false;'>18v-19r</a>. From Lady Ottoline Morrell <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(119);return false;'>72r-75r</a>. From Nevill Forbes, Robbie Ross and Roderick Meiklejohn, January 1917 <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(122);return false;'>73v</a>, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(110);return false;'>78r-79v</a>. From Garsington </div> Quotations:<div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(3);return false;'>1r</a>. Campion, 'When thou must home' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(4);return false;'>1v</a>. Francis Thompson, 'I fall into the claws of time' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(15);return false;'>7r</a>. Ch.Ch.M.S. 'For 'tis a duteous thing' and Herrick, 'Let the dark not thee cumber' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(21);return false;'>10r</a>. Mr Britling, beginning 'Everywhere cunning' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(25);return false;'>12r</a>. Swinburne, 'O sleepless heart' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(58);return false;'>28v-29r</a>, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(61);return false;'>30r</a>, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(78);return false;'>37v</a>. [Moore], 'The Brook Kerith' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(61);return false;'>30r</a>. Gösta Berling, 'I am no suicide' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(80);return false;'>38v</a>. T.W.H. Crosland, 'Epitaph' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(89);return false;'>43r</a>. Viscount Morley on Lloyd George <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(131);return false;'>68v-69r</a>. J. Masefield, 'Roses are beauty' </div> Other:<div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(4);return false;'>1v</a>. lists of members of his section and their fates <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(84);return false;'>40v</a>. a list of clothing items and of diary dates <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(115);return false;'>75v-77r</a>. 'list of people Robert Graves wants his book sent to' <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(4);return false;'>1v</a>; <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(101);return false;'>84r</a>. acquaintances' contact details <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(108);return false;'>80v</a>. ?list of monies spent </div> N.B. Sassoon wrote from both ends of this notebook; from folio <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(132);return false;'>68v</a> entries resume from the opposite end. Folios <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(99);return false;'>48r-68r</a> and <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(130);return false;'>69v-73r</a> are blank. There are no loose enclosures or detached folios. The foliation is the archivist's.