Siegfried Sassoon papers, 1894-1966

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1110
Bib ID:
4079591 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
3 linear feet (4 boxes, 13 slipcases)
Language(s):
English .
Access:
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Description

Summary

Correspondence and manuscripts. The collection includes manuscript drafts and typescripts of two volumes of his autobiography: THE OLD CENTURY AND SEVEN MORE YEARS, 1938; and THE WEALD OF YOUTH, 1942. There are also 13 volumes of early notebooks for the period 1894 until 1909 (from age 8 to 22) containing drafts of over 200 poems, 19 short stories and many drawings. There is some correspondence about the autobiography. Also includes 21 letters from Arnold Bennett, 51 letters from Lady Ottoline Morrell, 26 letters from H.M. Tomlinson, 19 letters from Sassoon to his mother-in-law, Lady Gatty, 22 letters from Sassoon to his son, letters from many others, and a typescript of his poem "A love affair" with holograph note

Arrangement

Selected materials cataloged; remainder arranged.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located on-site.

This collection has no restrictions.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Siegfried Sassoon papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Alternate Form Available

Selected manuscripts are on: microfilm.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Papers: Source of acquisition--293-8/9/83;-9/20/84; & 297-6/7/83. Method of acquisition--Purchase.

4 letters of Arnold Bennett: Source of acquisition--293 (David J. Holmes). Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--11/05/1991. Accession number--M-91-11-05.

5 letters: Source of acquisition--293--9/23/91. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--09/23/1991. Accession number--M-91-09-23.

200 letters: Source of acquisition--2293B (Rare Book) & 6365B (Halsband). Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--01/24/1994. Accession number--M-94-01-24.

24 letters: Source of acquisition--2293B. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--12/23/1994. Accession number--M-94-12-23.

17 letters & 1 ms: Source of acquisition--2293B. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--01/26/1996. Accession number--M-96-01-26.

poetry drafts & bills: Source of acquisition--2293B. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--10/26/1995. Accession number--M-95-10-26.

Mostly G.T. Sassoon papers: Source of acquisition--APU9673. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--02/10/2000. Accession number--M-00-02-10.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers Entered in AMC 11/29/1990.

4 letters of Arnold Bennett Cataloged HR 11/25/1991.

5 letters Cataloged HR 11/19/1992.

200 letters Cataloged HR 02/14/1994.

24 letters Cataloged HR 02/10/1995.

17 letters & 1 ms Cataloged HR 02/06/1996.

poetry drafts & bills Cataloged & processed HR 10/29/1998.

Mostly G.T. Sassoon papers Processed HR 08/08/2000.

Revision Description

2009-07-07 File created.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical note

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Anthologies CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Autobiographies (literary works) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Certificates CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drafts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drawings (visual works) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Essays CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Fiction (general genre) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Galley proofs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Invitations CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lists (document genres) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Manuscripts (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Notebooks CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Notes (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Photographs CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poems CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Programs (documents) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Receipts (financial records) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
School records CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Scores (documents for music) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sketches CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Name
Alma-Tadema, Laura Theresa, Lady, 1852-1909 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence, 1836-1912 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Barker, Ernest, Sir, 1874-1960 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Behrman, S. N (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Brain, W. Russell Brain, Baron (Walter Russell Brain), 1895-1966 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cecil, David, 1902-1986 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Cobden-Sanderson, Richard CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Crosland, T. W. H (Thomas William Hodgson), 1865-1924 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
De la Mare, Richard CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Dunn, J. Shaw (John Shaw) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Forster, E. M (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
French, Charles Newenham, 1875- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gatty, Margaret Scott, 1809-1873 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gatty, Richard, 1909-1975 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gosse, Philip, 1879-1959 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Gosse, Sylvia, 1881-1968 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Graham, W. H (William Hugh), 1912- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Hassall, Christopher, 1912-1963 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Haynes, E. S. P. (Edmund Sidney Pollock), 1877-1949 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Kirkup, James, 1918-2009 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Klock, Franz-Joachim, 1937- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Lehmann, Rosamond, 1901-1990 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Meredith, Margaret Elliot CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Monro, Harold, 1879-1932 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady, 1873-1938 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Morrell, Philip, 1870-1943 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Newbolt, Henry John, Sir, 1862-1938 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Nichols, Robert, 1893-1944 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Olivier, Edith CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Oshima, Shotaro, 1899- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Palmer, Herbert E. (Herbert Edward), 1880-1961 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Prewett, Frank, 1893-1962 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Quennell, Peter, 1905-1993 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Russell, George William, 1867-1935 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sassoon, George CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Shaw, Glen Byam CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Speaight, Robert, 1904-1976 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Spencer, Gilbert, 1892-1979 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Squire, John Collings, Sir, 1884-1958 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Stonehouse, John Harrison, 1865?-1937 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Tennant, Stephen, 1906-1987 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Tomlinson, H. M (Henry Major), 1873-1958 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Vaughan, Margaret CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Watson, John (John Robson) CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Wilkinson, L. P CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Williams, Orlo, 1883- CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Place
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Subject
Authors, English CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
English literature -- 20th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- 20th century CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID
Poets, English CLIO Catalog ArchiveGRID