Wilfred Owen collection, 1917-1966

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Series I: Catalogued Correspondence, 1917-1966


Bell, John (1922-2008) (Editor, Oxford University Press.)



Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--London--t.l.s., 1 p., 1965 October 14


Gunston, Leslie (1895-1988) (Poet, artist, and cousin of Wilfred Owen.)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Wimbledon--a.l.s., 2 p. (signed E. Leslie Gunston), 1921 August 8


Box 1 To Edmund Blunden--Reading--a.l.s., 2 p. (signed E. Leslie Gunston), 1930 February 17


Norman, Charles (1904-1996) (Russian-born American writer of biography, fiction, and poetry.)


Box 1 To the Memory of Wilfred Owen--n.p., t.ms., 2 p. (poem; signed pencil note by Siegfried Sassoon at the head of the first page), undated


Owen, Colin S. (1900-1971) (Brother of Wilfred Owen.)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Nairobi--a.l.s., 1 p., 1946 March 26


Owen, Harold [William Harold] (1897-1971) (Brother and biographer of Wilfred Owen.)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 5 p., 1921 December 23


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 3 p., 1922 January 4


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--London--a.l.s., 3 p., 1922 January 19


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--London--a.l.s., 1 p., 1922 June 10


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--London--a.l.s., 3 p., 1922 November 27


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--London--a.l.s., 2 p., 1922 November 29


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--London--a.l.s., 1 p., 1922 December


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 2 p., 1922 December 21


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--London--a.l.s., 1 p., 1922 December


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 2 p., 1923 January 18


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 2 p., 1923 February 18


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 2 p., 1923 May 17


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Prestbury--a.l.s., 4 p., 1924 January 2


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Prestbury--a.l.s., 2 p., 1924 March


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Goring-on-Thames--a.l.s., 4 p., 1927 July 14


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Checkendon--a.l.s., 2 p., 1928 November 30


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Wallingford--a.l.s., 6 p. (with envelope), 1931 May 7


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Ipsden--a.l.s., 7 p. (with envelope), 1946 March 20


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Ipsden--a.l.s., 5 p. (with envelope), 1946 April 23


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Ipsden--a.l.s., 4 p. (with envelope), 1949 August 23


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Ipsden--a.l.s., 8 p., 1949 September 13


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Ipsden--a.l.s., 2 p. (with envelope), 1956 December 27


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Ipsden--a.l.s., 2 p. (with envelope), 1957 January 1


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Ipsden--a.l.s., 1 p., 1957 July 1


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Ipsden--a.l.s., 1 p., 1959 September 22


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Ipsden--a.l.s., 2 p. (with envelope), 1959 September 26


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Ipsden--a.l.s., 2 p. (with envelope), 1965 October 11


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Ipsden--a.l.s., 2 p. (with envelope), 1966 February 5


Owen, Susan [Harriet Susan] (1867-1942) (Mother of Wilfred Owen.)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Reading--a.l.s., 2 p., January 21


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 2 p., June 12


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 8 p., June 22


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shewsbury--a.l.s., 4 p., July 27


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 1 p., July 31


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 10 p., September 10


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Reading--a.l.s., 2 p., September 23


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Reading--a.l.s., 2 p., October 14


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 3 p., November 18


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 10 p., [1920] March 1


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shewsbury--a.l.s., 2 p., [1920] October 11


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 2 p., 1921 August 25


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 3 p., [1923] December 16


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Taunton--a.l.s., 2 p., 1926 September 22


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Reading--a.l.s., 6 p., 1926 September 29


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Reading--a.l.s., 2 p., 1926 October 16


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Reading--a.l.s., 5 p. (with envelope), 1927 May 3


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Reading--a.l.s., 8 p. (with envelope), 1930 February 23


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Reading--a.l.s., 4 p. (with envelope), 1930 November 26


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Reading--a.l.s., 4 p., 1933 May 9


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Reading--a.l.s., 3 p. (with envelope), 1933 May 14


Owen, Wilfred Edward Slater (1893-1918) (British World War I poet, who was killed on the battlefield in France. His book titled Poems was posthumously edited and published by his friend Siegfried Sassoon.)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--v.p.--7 a.l.s., 1917 November 5-1918 October 10


(photocopies of letters, Published: Owen, Collected Letters, nos. 557, 565, 568, 648, 649, 660 and 664)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Shrewsbury--a.l.s., 4 p., 1917 November 5


(Published: Owen, Collected Letters, no. 557.)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Scarborough--a.l.s., 6 p., 1917 November 27


(Published: Owen, Collected Letters, no. 565.)


Box 1 ["Shadwell Stair"]--Scarborough a.ms., 1 p., circa 1917 November


(poem; written on verso of stationary imprinted, 5th (Res.) Battn. Manchester Regt., The Barracks, Scarborough)


[Note: Text of the poem varies in several instances from the published in The Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited by Edmund Blunden, 1931, p. 51.]


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Scarborough--a.l.s., 1 p., 1917 December 6


(Published: Owen, Collected Letters, no. 568.)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon E.F.C., Officers Rest House and Mess--a.l.s., 2 p., 1918 August 31


(Published: Owen, Collected Letters, no. 648.)


Box 1 "The Blind" [Amiens]--a.ms., 2 p., circa 1918 September


(poem; with two corrections by Owen and a note at the beginning, "Please confer title if worthy"; Siegfried Sassoon has canceled the title and written in pencil at head of the page, "The Sentry/Wilfred Owen")


[Note: Enclosed in the letter written by Owen to Sassoon, 1918 September 22]


Box 1 "Spring Offensive", Amiens--a.ms., 2 p., circa 1918 September


(poem; text on recto and a note by Owen on verso; Sassoon has written Owen's name in pencil at head of poem)


[Note: Enclosed in the letter written by Owen to Sassoon, 1918 September 22.]


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--A Depot, A.P.O. S. 17, B.E.F., France [Étaples]--a.l.s., 4 p., 1918 September 1


(Published: Owen, Collected Letters, no. 649.)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--D. Coy. 2nd Manchester Regt.--[Amiens]--a.l.s., 2 p., 1918 September 22


(Two manuscript poems, "The Blind" and "Spring Offensive", enclosed in above letter catalogued separately. Published: Owen, Collected Letters, no. 660.)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--[On the battlefield]--a.l.s., 4 p., 1918 October 10


(with enclosure, printed "Special Order of the Day", by 4th Army Commander, General Sir H.S. Rawlinson, dated (1918 October 7); note by Sassoon in pencil at the top of the page. Published: Collected Letters, no. 664.)


Parsons, Ian M. (1906-1980) (Partner, Chatto and Windus Ltd. (1930-1954); chair and managing director (1954-1976).)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--London--t.l.s., 1 p., 1946 June 14


Welland, Dennis Sydney Reginald (1919-2002) (English author including Wilfred Owen: A Critical Study (Chatto and Windus, 1960, revised and enlarged edition, 1978).)


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Nottingham--a.l.s., 1 p., 1950 October 8


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Nottingham--a.l.s., 2 p., 1950 October 15


Box 1 To Siegfried Sassoon--Nottingham--a.l.s., 1 p., 1950 December 11


Box 1 Printed material: Clippings and reviews, 1920-1971