Sassoon Journals : Journal, 4 Feb. 1921-18 Apr. 1921

Sassoon Journals

<p style='text-align: justify;'>The volume is a ruled notebook and mostly comprises diary entries; preparatory notes for poetry and prose; and notes on politics, the economy and industrial conditions (especially in South Wales). Contents include:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Prose passages:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(26);return false;'>13v-15r</a>. 'To a Traveller'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(30);return false;'>15v-21r</a>. 'On Staying at Max Gate' and visiting Thomas Hardy</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(48);return false;'>24v</a>, untitled, begins 'the joyous adventure'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(61);return false;'>31r</a>. 'Autognosis'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(77);return false;'>39r-39v</a>. untitled, begins 'What would happen to a man who fell in love with a lunatic?'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(80);return false;'>40v-41r</a>. 'Entering the N.P.G. [National Portrait Gallery]'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(86);return false;'>43v</a>, <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(92);return false;'>46v-57v</a>. & <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(144);return false;'>66r-69v</a>. on the coal mining industry</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(134);return false;'>74r-74v</a>. note on 'Eye and Ear Music'</li></ul></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>Drafts of poetry:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(4);return false;'>2v</a>. 'Of the Phoenix'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(12);return false;'>6v-8r</a>. 'Unicorn'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(16);return false;'>8v</a> & <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(19);return false;'>10r</a>. untitled, later called 'Prayer'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(22);return false;'>11v</a>. untitled, begins 'On a delicate clear day'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(23);return false;'>12r</a>. 'Rosemary'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(24);return false;'>12v-13r</a>. 'Anagram' [acrostic]</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(29);return false;'>15r</a>. & 22r. untitled, begins 'This brook has bright green hair'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(44);return false;'>22v-24r</a>. 'Lines to my Notebook'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(50);return false;'>25v-26r</a>. untitled, begins 'When twig-perched birds are brave'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(62);return false;'>31v-32r</a>. the text has been erased</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(74);return false;'>37v-38r</a>. 'Things I have no objection to'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(72);return false;'>36v</a>. & <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(79);return false;'>40r</a>. the text has been erased</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(81);return false;'>41r</a>. & <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(85);return false;'>43r</a>. 'Meridian'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(141);return false;'>70v-71r</a>. 'Delphine'</li></ul></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>Sketches and doodles:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(3);return false;'>2r</a>. a tree</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(36);return false;'>18v</a>. a milestone</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(36);return false;'>18v</a>. a hillside with the Cerne Abbas giant</li></ul></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>Quotations and notes from published works:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(2);return false;'>1v</a>. Pascal, begins 'On se parsaude mieux'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(2);return false;'>1v</a>. Morley, begins 'A vast space'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(2);return false;'>1v</a>. Laudor, begins 'Sad is the day'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(5);return false;'>3r</a>. Laudor, begins 'Every great author'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(8);return false;'>4r</a> [Paul Verlaine], 'Offraude' (in French)</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(17);return false;'>9r</a>. from a work entitled 'Hydrotaphia'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(52);return false;'>26v-30r</a>. Conrad, 'Notes on Life and letters', for a review</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(139);return false;'>72r</a>. W[illiam] H[alse] R[ivers] R[ivers], ' Dreams and Primitive Culture'</li></ul></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>Other:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(131);return false;'>76r</a>. acquaintances' contact details</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(150);return false;'>75r-75v</a>. lists of monies spent</li></ul></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>N.B. There are no loose enclosures or detached folios. The foliation is the archivist's. Blank from folio <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(87);return false;'>44r-46r</a> and <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(1);return false;'>58-65</a>. After folio <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(1);return false;'>66</a> entries resume from the back of the notebook.</p>