Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon / Letter to S. from Bryn-y-pin / The Leveller
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| Author | Graves, Robert (1895-1985) |
|---|---|
| Title | Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon. |
| Notes | Comments on Siegfried Sassoon's wounds and the possibility of seeing a sister of Robert Graves' who is in Boulogne / includes ten lines of a poem later titled 'Letter to S. S. from Bryn-y-pin', included in 'The Patchwork Flag' and written anticipating Sassoon's death / reports of the sudden death from the flu and pneumonia of Nancy Nicholson's mother / comments on the potential for the end of the war and Graves' opinion of American war aims / plans for and concerns about buying and running a dairy farm in Sussex / potential for Sassoon to aid Graves and Nancy financially / alludes to a 'trench poem' written recently by Graves entitled 'The Leveller', included with the letter / comments that two years prior Graves was writing in Mametz Wood. Contains also a letter to Sassoon from Bryn-y-pin on 9th July 1918. |
| Item Date | 16th July 1918 |
| Creation place | Rhyl, Wales (Google Maps) |
| File type | Image |
| Item source | Leaf |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Pen |
| Content | Letter |
| Page | 4 of 5 |
| Collection ID | The Berg Collection |
| Repository name | New York Public Library |
| Repository address | Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York USA |
| Repository URL | http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature |
| Cataloguer | Alisa Miller |
| Filename | RGNYPLBERG1214u.jpg |
| Copyright | The Berg Collection, New York Public Library / The Robert Graves Copyright Trust |
| Digital repository | The First World War Poetry Digital Archive |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/3122/2626 |
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| Author | Graves, Robert (1895-1985) |
|---|---|
| Title | Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon / Letter to S. from Bryn-y-pin / The Leveller |
| Notes | Comments on Siegfried Sassoon's wounds and the possibility of seeing a sister of Robert Graves' who is in Boulogne / includes ten lines of a poem later titled 'Letter to S. S. from Bryn-y-pin', included in 'The Patchwork Flag' and written anticipating Sassoon's death / reports of the sudden death from the flu and pneumonia of Nancy Nicholson's mother / comments on the potential for the end of the war and Graves' opinion of American war aims / plans for and concerns about buying and running a dairy farm in Sussex / potential for Sassoon to aid Graves and Nancy financially / alludes to a 'trench poem' written recently by Graves entitled 'The Leveller', included with the letter / comments that two years prior Graves was writing in Mametz Wood. Contains also a letter to Sassoon from Bryn-y-pin on 9th July 1918. |
| Item Date | 16th July 1918 |
| File type | Compound Object |
| Item source | Leaf |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Pencil |
| Content | Letter |
| Collection ID | The Berg Collection |
| Repository name | New York Public Library |
| Repository address | Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street New York USA |
| Repository URL | http://www.nypl.org/locations/schwarzman/berg-collection-english-and-american-literature |
| Cataloguer | Alisa Miller |
| Copyright | The Berg Collection, New York Public Library / The Robert Graves Copyright Trust |
| Digital repository | The First World War Poetry Digital Archive |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/3122 |
