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Letter To Leslie Gunston / The Dead-Beat

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AuthorOwen, Wilfred (1893-1918)
TitleLetter To Leslie Gunston / The Dead-Beat
NotesDescribes in detail his first meeting with Siegfried Sassoon. Includes a draft of 'The Dead Beat'. The letter covers two days. In the second day Owen again describes his meeting with Sassoon including a conversation about 'The Old Huntsman' and Sassoon's advice on writing poetry. This is letter no. 541 in Ed. 'Wilfred Owen Collected Letters'.
Item Date22nd August 1917
Creation placeCraiglockhart, Scotland (Google Maps)
File typeCompound Object
Item sourceFolio
Item mediumPaper
Writing mediumPen
ContentLetter
Repository nameHarry Ransom Center
Repository address
The University of Texas at Austin
21st and Guadalupe Streets
Austin
Texas
78712
USA
Repository URLhttp://www.hrc.utexas.edu
CataloguerJennifer Dunn
CopyrightThe Harry Ransom Center / The Wilfred Owen Literary Estate
Digital repositoryThe First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/5247