Names: Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967 / Places: Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century / Subjects: English literature -- 20th century - Columbia University Libraries Archival Collections Search Results

Start Over Names Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967 Places Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Subjects English literature -- 20th century

Creator: Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967
Abstract Or Scope: 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

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