Sassoon Journals : Journal, 8 Aug. 1921-2 Mar. 1922

Sassoon Journals

The volume is a ruled notebook (marked '1921 Rome' on the front cover) and mostly comprises diary entries, together with preparatory notes for poetry and prose. Contents include:Diary entries:<ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(31);return false;'>14r-21r</a>. an account of a visit to Renshaw Hall [home of the Sitwells] in September 1921, with comments on Osbert Sitwell</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(47);return false;'>22r-23v</a>. entries concerning Elgar</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(59);return false;'>28r</a>. entry written at Tintern Abbey</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(60);return false;'>28v-30</a>. entry written at Max Gate, home of 'T.H.' [Thomas Hardy]</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(64);return false;'>30v-33v</a>. on a trip to Rome [with Frank 'Toronto' Prewett]</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(88);return false;'>42v-45r</a>. at Cirencester [with Norman Loder]</li></ul> Drafts of poetry:<ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(9);return false;'>4r-5r</a>. untitled, begins 'It is rumoured of God Almighty'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(13);return false;'>6r-10a(v)</a>. 'The Last Judgement'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(25);return false;'>11r-12r</a>. 'Dives and Lazarus'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(27);return false;'>12r</a>. 'My Message'</li></ul> Quotations:<ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(6);return false;'>2v</a>. Landor, begins 'There is a gloom in deep love'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(7);return false;'>3r</a>. Shelley, begins 'Murmured names and spells'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(28);return false;'>12v</a>. Nietzsche, begins 'In respect to artists of every kind'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(30);return false;'>13v</a>. Shelley, marked 'Reason and Imagination'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(101);return false;'>71v</a>. T[homas] H[ardy] quoting Job.XV.17, 'That which I have seen I will declare'</li></ul> Prose passages:<ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(80);return false;'>38v-39r</a>. 'Prelude to a self-revealing journal'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(82);return false;'>39v-41r</a>. 'After-effects of an intellectual discussion at Cambridge'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(86);return false;'>41v-42r</a>. 'Conversation in a tea-car' (with Mr Elwes)</li></ul> Pen and ink drawings:<ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(5);return false;'>2r</a>. semi-abstract image containing two male figures</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(23);return false;'>10b(r)</a>. semi-abstract image labelled 'The serpent Lust; shapes of distracted Angels: I am Orestes fighting with my furies'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(24);return false;'>10b(v)</a> semi-abstract image containing a figure and a face</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(105);return false;'>69v</a>. abstract lines containing the letters A.M.L.</li></ul> Other:<ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(8);return false;'>3v</a>. notes on The Last Judgement and religious enthusiasm</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(97);return false;'>72r-73v</a>. list of manuscripts of poems by Wilfred Owen, annotated with probable dates and thoughts on quality</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(102);return false;'>71r</a>. list of 'Poems returned to Mrs Owen as no good'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(75);return false;'>36r</a>. notes on incentives for writing</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(76);return false;'>36v-37v</a>. notes on reasons for keeping a journal</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(73);return false;'>35r-35v</a>. list of social engagements October 1921-March 1922</li></ul> N.B. After folio <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(1);return false;'>69</a> entries resume from the back of the notebook. Detached folios are to be found in a separate envelope. The foliation is the archivist's. Blank from folios <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(94);return false;'>45v-69r</a>.