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Sassoon Journals : Journal, 10 June 1926-12 Dec. 1926

Sassoon Journals

<p style='text-align: justify;'>The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1926 II' and mostly comprises diary entries. There are notes throughout on the progress of Sassoon's literary work (number of words written). Contents include:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Diary entries:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(26);return false;'>13v-14r</a>, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(238);return false;'>116v-117r</a>. Edith Sitwell and a feud with Noel Coward<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(47);return false;'>24r-25r</a>. 'Little [Edmund] Blunden' and Glen [Byam Shaw]<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(50);return false;'>25v-54r</a>. a visit to France, Switzerland and Italy with the Morrells<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(111);return false;'>55r</a>, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(116);return false;'>56v-57r</a>, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(128);return false;'>63v-64r</a>, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(145);return false;'>70r</a>. Robert Graves and his relationship with Laura [Riding]<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(230);return false;'>112v-113r</a>. concerning T.E.L. [T.E. Lawrence] and E.M. Forster<br /></div><br /></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>Pasted in ephemera:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(26);return false;'>13v</a>. cloakroom ticket from a party at Lady Colefax's<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(110);return false;'>54v</a>. clipping from a Heffer's of Cambridge bookseller's catalogue listing first edition copies of 'Picture Show'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(183);return false;'>89r</a>. reminder for a luncheon to be held by Osbert Sitwell<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(202);return false;'>98v</a>. press cutting re an observation of Sassoon walking along the middle of the road, together with Sassoon's comments upon this<br /></div><br /></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>Other:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(4);return false;'>1v</a>, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(6);return false;'>2v</a>. acquaintances' contact details<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(4);return false;'>1v</a>. lists of monies spent and books taken away<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(5);return false;'>2r</a>. list of locations of nights spent away from home, largely in France and Italy<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(5);return false;'>2r</a>. sketch of a man's head<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(12);return false;'>6v-7r</a>. prose passage entitled 'Conversation between O[sbert] S[itwell] and C[harles Kenneth] S[cott] M[oncrieff]'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(220);return false;'>107v</a>. stave of music, Beethoven<br /></div><br /></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>N.B. There are no loose enclosures or detached folios. The foliation is the archivist's.</p>


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