Papers of Siegfried Sassoon

The poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was an undergraduate at Clare College 1905-07, and was made an Honorary Fellow in 1953. His Cambridge friends included the musicologist E. J. Dent, the librarian A. T. Bartholomew, and the surgeon and bibliographer Sir Geoffrey Keynes. Keynes published A Bibliography of Siegfried Sassoon (London 1962) and collected Sassoon's books, manuscripts and letters, which came to CUL in 1982. Sassoon's library and papers were dispersed by sale after his death, and the Library has purchased items from time to time. Books from Sassoon's own library are in the rare books class CCC.39.

Manuscripts of Sassoon's poems, and correspondence about publishing them:

• Add. 8487, Picture Show (1919): MS, letters to A. T. Bartholomew
• Add. 8488, Recreations (1923): MS
• Add. 8491-93, Vigils (1934): MS, transcript, correspondence
• Add. 8489-90, Rhymed Ruminations (1939): MS, correspondence
• Add. 8485-86, Emblems of Experience (1951): MS, transcript
• Add. 8538-39, The Tasking (1954): MS, transcript, correspondence

Letters from Sassoon:

• Add. 7973, to E. J. Dent 1915-1919
• Add. 8483, to A. T. Bartholomew 1921-1932 (1917-1920 in Add.8487)
• Add. 8484, to H. Festing Jones 1919-1928
• Add. 7595, to C. E. Tomkinson 1923-1960
• Add. 7032, to P. H. Gosse (1 letter) 1929
• Add. 8905, to Edward Marsh 1935-1949
• Add. 8905, to Christopher Hassall 1936-1959
• Add. 8633, to Geoffrey and Margaret Keynes 1933-1967
• Add. 9251, to Frank Kendon (1 letter) 1955
• Add. 8276, to members of the Gatty family 1959-1966
• Add. 7935, to Mother Margaret Mary 1957-1967

Letters to Sassoon:

• Add. 8889, from personal friends and other authors

Miscellaneous:

• Add. 8494, list of books owned by A. T. Bartholomew
• Add. 8541, list of books and MSS owned by Geoffrey Keynes 1939

Typescript lists of Add. MSS 7935, 7973, 8633, 8889 and 8905 are available in the Manuscripts Reading Room.

Contact: John Wells (01223-333055; jdw1000@cam.ac.uk).

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