Sassoon Journals : Journal, 13 Dec. 1926-11 Mar. 1927

Sassoon Journals

<p style='text-align: justify;'>The volume is a ruled notebook marked '1926-27-I' and mostly comprises diary entries, including passages relating to his friendships with Ben Nichols, Edmund Gosse, Edith and Obsert Sitwell, and E.M. Forster, among others. Contents include:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Diary entries:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(55);return false;'>27r</a>. showing American publisher Crosby Gaige the manuscript of [Wilfred] Owen's poems</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(69);return false;'>34r-34v</a>. a visit from Robert Graves</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(88);return false;'>43v-44r</a>. 'My Landlord' (about Harold Speed)</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(90);return false;'>44v-45v</a>. anecdotes about poets W.B. Yeats and Wordsworth told to him by Edmund Gosse</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(110);return false;'>54v-67r</a>. visits to Ruth and Henry Head and to Thomas Hardy at Max Gate</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(159);return false;'>79r</a>. reflections on his influence on Wilfred Owen's poem 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(170);return false;'>84v-86r</a> & <a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(208);return false;'>102v-103r</a>. trips to Oxford to see Glen Byam Shaw perform</li></ul></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>Copies of letters:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(86);return false;'>42v-43r</a>. from Sassoon's nephews Leo and Pat Sassoon re Christmas gifts and family news</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(140);return false;'>69v</a>. from Robert and Nancy [Graves]</li></ul></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>Other:</p><p style='text-align: justify;'><ul><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(4);return false;'>1v</a>. list of locations of nights spent away from home</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(5);return false;'>2r</a>. an analysis of the time taken to fill journal volumes</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(66);return false;'>32v-33r</a>. lists of 'Books given away this Christmas'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(158);return false;'>78v</a>. pasted in photograph of 'Mother's cat Jack'</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(186);return false;'>91v</a>. pasted in press cutting of an advertisement for the 'Mercury Book' (poetry anthology)</li><li><a href='' onclick='store.loadPage(208);return false;'>102v</a>. draft of a poem 'For an Album'</li></ul></p><br /><p style='text-align: justify;'>N.B. A detached folio is to be found in a separate envelope. The foliation is the archivist's.</p>