Sassoon Journals : Journal, 17 Nov. 1915-13 Mar. 1916

Sassoon Journals

<p style='text-align: justify;'>The volume is a ruled notebook and mainly comprises diary entries. Contents include:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Diary entries:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(11);return false;'>5r</a>. descriptions of the journey to France and to base camp at Etaples<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(12);return false;'>5v</a>. the march to Festubert<br />Robert Graves <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(13);return false;'>6r</a> and his poetry <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(15);return false;'>7r</a><br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(15);return false;'>7r-8r</a>. the march to Bourecq, with descriptions of his fellow soldiers<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(17);return false;'>8r</a>. his wish for 'a genuine taste of the horrors'<br />descriptions of Bourecq <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(19);return false;'>9r</a>, Montagne <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(20);return false;'>9v</a> and the Somme Valley <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(28);return false;'>13v</a><br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(36);return false;'>17v</a>. a brigade field day between Lincheux and Fricourt<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(43);return false;'>21r</a>. his appointment as Transport Officer<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(44);return false;'>21v</a>. a visit to Amiens<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(48);return false;'>23v</a>. the march to Morlancourt<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(56);return false;'>27v</a>. his battalion at the Front Line near Fricourt<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(57);return false;'>28r</a>. notice of leave taken in England<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(73);return false;'>36r</a>. impressions on leaving Southampton<br /></div><br /></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>Drafts of poetry:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(27);return false;'>13r</a>. 'A Child's Faith', later called 'A Poet's Faith' or 'Simpleton'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(28);return false;'>13v</a>. 'A Man's Faith', later called 'Brothers'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(30);return false;'>14v</a>. 'The Prince of Peace', later called 'The Prince of Wounds'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(32);return false;'>15v</a>. 'Testament'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(36);return false;'>17v</a>. 'To Victory'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(40);return false;'>19v</a>. 'Druids'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(41);return false;'>20r</a>. 'January'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(42);return false;'>20v</a>. 'Glory: 1916'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(51);return false;'>25r</a> 'In the Pink'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(52);return false;'>25v</a>. 'Love' and 'The Rainbow'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(53);return false;'>26r</a>. 'The Silver Stems' and 'Falling Asleep'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(54);return false;'>26v-27r</a>. 'Pastoral'<br /></div><br /></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>Quotations:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(10);return false;'>4v</a>. Walter de la Mare's 'Music' and Gordon Bottomley's 'Remorse' and 'Youth'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(81);return false;'>32r</a>. Robert Graves' 'Willaree'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(80);return false;'>32v</a>. Robert Graves' 'The Morning before the Battle'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(79);return false;'>33r</a>. Robert Graves' 'On Finding myself a Soldier'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(78);return false;'>33v</a>. Robert Graves' 'Ghost Music'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(77);return false;'>34r</a>. Robert Graves' 'In the Wilderness'<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(76);return false;'>34v</a>. Robert Graves' 'The Face of the Heavens'<br /></div><br /></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>Other:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><div><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(7);return false;'>3r</a>. sketch of a man leaning on a table, largely erased<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(69);return false;'>38r</a>. lists of members of his ?battalion<br /><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(4);return false;'>1v-4r</a>; <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(65);return false;'>39v-40r</a>. acquaintances' contact details<br /></div><br /></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>N.B. Sassoon wrote from both ends of this notebook; from ff. <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(82);return false;'>32r-40v</a> entries resume from the opposite end. Enclosures are to be found in a separate envelope. The foliation is the archivist's.</p>