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):
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English
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- 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.
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This collection is located on-site.
This collection has no restrictions.
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.
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| Certificates |
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| Drafts (documents) |
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| Drawings (visual works) |
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| Essays |
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| Galley proofs |
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| Invitations |
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| Manuscripts (documents) |
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| Notebooks |
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| Poems |
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| Alma-Tadema, Laura Theresa, Lady, 1852-1909 |
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| Alma-Tadema, Lawrence, 1836-1912 |
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| Barker, Ernest, Sir, 1874-1960 |
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| Behrman, S. N (Samuel Nathaniel), 1893-1973 |
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| Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931 |
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| Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974 |
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| Brain, W. Russell Brain, Baron (Walter Russell Brain), 1895-1966 |
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| Cecil, David, 1902-1986 |
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| Cobden-Sanderson, Richard |
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| Crosland, T. W. H (Thomas William Hodgson), 1865-1924 |
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| De la Mare, Richard |
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| Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937 |
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| Dunn, J. Shaw (John Shaw) |
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| Forster, E. M (Edward Morgan), 1879-1970 |
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| French, Charles Newenham, 1875- |
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| Gatty, Margaret Scott, 1809-1873 |
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| Gatty, Richard, 1909-1975 |
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| Gosse, Edmund, 1849-1928 |
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| Gosse, Philip, 1879-1959 |
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| Gosse, Sylvia, 1881-1968 |
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| Graham, W. H (William Hugh), 1912- |
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| Hassall, Christopher, 1912-1963 |
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| Haynes, E. S. P. (Edmund Sidney Pollock), 1877-1949 |
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| Housman, Laurence, 1865-1959 |
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| Keynes, Geoffrey, 1887-1982 |
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| Kirkup, James, 1918-2009 |
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| Klock, Franz-Joachim, 1937- |
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| Lehmann, Rosamond, 1901-1990 |
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| Meredith, Margaret Elliot |
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| Monro, Harold, 1879-1932 |
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| Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady, 1873-1938 |
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| Morrell, Philip, 1870-1943 |
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| Newbolt, Henry John, Sir, 1862-1938 |
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| Nichols, Robert, 1893-1944 |
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| Olivier, Edith |
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| Oshima, Shotaro, 1899- |
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| Palmer, Herbert E. (Herbert Edward), 1880-1961 |
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| Prewett, Frank, 1893-1962 |
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| Quennell, Peter, 1905-1993 |
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| Ross, Robert Baldwin, 1869-1918 |
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| Russell, George William, 1867-1935 |
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| Sassoon, George |
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| Shaw, Glen Byam |
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| Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969 |
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| Speaight, Robert, 1904-1976 |
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| Spencer, Gilbert, 1892-1979 |
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| Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995 |
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| Squire, John Collings, Sir, 1884-1958 |
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| Stonehouse, John Harrison, 1865?-1937 |
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| Tennant, Stephen, 1906-1987 |
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| Tomlinson, H. M (Henry Major), 1873-1958 |
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| Vaughan, Margaret |
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| Walpole, Hugh, 1884-1941 |
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| Watson, John (John Robson) |
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| Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946 |
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| Wilkinson, L. P |
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| Williams, Orlo, 1883- |
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| Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century |
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| Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century |
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| Authors, English |
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| English literature -- 20th century |
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| Literature and society -- Great Britain -- 20th century |
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| Poets, English |
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