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| Author | Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967) |
|---|---|
| Title | Before the Battle |
| Notes | Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a bound volume belonging to Sassoon containing a collection of his poems and various watercolours, clippings and autographs. The poem was published in 'The Old Huntsman' (1917). |
| Item Date | June 1916 |
| Creation place | Bussy-les-Daours (Google Maps) |
| File type | Image |
| Item source | Folio |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Pen |
| Content | Poem |
| Page | 6 of 8 |
| Collection ID | The Siegfried Sassoon Collection |
| Repository name | Harry Ransom Center |
| Repository address | The University of Texas at Austin 21st and Guadalupe Streets Austin Texas 78712 USA |
| Repository URL | http://www.hrc.utexas.edu |
| Cataloguer | Alisa Miller |
| Filename | SSHRC_075.jpg |
| Copyright | The Harry Ransom Center / The Siegfried Sassoon Literary Estate |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/9852/9754 |
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| Author | Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974) / Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967) |
|---|---|
| Title | Works 1 |
| Notes | A selection from a 57 page bound book with watercolor drawings, pasted clippings, and autographs. Early 18th century blue morocco binding with gilt paneled sides. Pasted on flyleaf: cartoon, A collection of poets outside the Golden Cross. (Gabriel Atkin). Dedication: This book belongs to Roderick Meiklejohn. Contents include 28 Country Poems by Sassoon and Fourteen New Rhymes for Children by Robert Graves with frontispiece and decorations drawn by Nancy Nicholson. Also contains autographs and signed manuscript poems by: Arnold Bennett, H.G. Wells, W. Somerset Maugham, W.H. Davies, W.S. Turner, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Lytton Strachey, Henry Festing Jones, C.J. Holmes, Desmond MacCarthy, E.M. Forster, Margaret Kennedy, Robert Nichols, Ralph Hodgson, Edmund Blunden, Frank Prewett. Contains the poem Quiet Evening, written and signed by Blunden. |
| Item Date | Unknown |
| Creation place | Unknown |
| File type | Image |
| Item source | Folio |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Pen |
| Collection ID | The Siegfried Sassoon Collection |
| Repository name | Harry Ransom Center |
| Repository address | The University of Texas at Austin 21st and Guadalupe Streets Austin Texas 78712 USA |
| Repository URL | http://www.hrc.utexas.edu |
| Cataloguer | Alisa Miller |
| Filename | SSHRC_070.jpg |
| Copyright | The Harry Ransom Center / The Siegfried Sassoon Literary Estate |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/9852 |
