BIB_ID
372588
Accession number
MA 5135.2
Creator
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967.
Display Date
1942 Apr. 20-1944 May 29.
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (ca. 65 p.), bound ; 20.5 cm
Notes
Housed with MA 5135.3 and MA 5135.4.
Includes a watercolor title page with "Some Experiences of a Soldier Poet" lettered on it. The following page includes a series of possible titles, all crossed out, including: "The Perplexities of a Soldier Poet," "A Name in the Making," "The Road to Reputation," "The Maze," "Memoirs of Immaturity," "My Early Thirties," and "Siegfried's Journey / [1916-1920]" (this final version is not crossed out).
Pages are numbered 1-53, but some pages include writing on the verso.
Some pages with word count in the lower right corner.
This item is part of a collection of materials related to Siegfried's Journey, the third volume of Sassoon's autobiography. The collection includes an autograph manuscript of a draft (MA 5135.1), a second autograph manuscript of a draft in three parts (MA 5135.2-4), and two corrected typescripts (MA 5135.5-6). See collection record for more information.
With corrections throughout the manuscript.
Written in a black leather notebook commercially available in England as "No. 7 in the 'Kensington' Series" from Society Stationery.
Includes a watercolor title page with "Some Experiences of a Soldier Poet" lettered on it. The following page includes a series of possible titles, all crossed out, including: "The Perplexities of a Soldier Poet," "A Name in the Making," "The Road to Reputation," "The Maze," "Memoirs of Immaturity," "My Early Thirties," and "Siegfried's Journey / [1916-1920]" (this final version is not crossed out).
Pages are numbered 1-53, but some pages include writing on the verso.
Some pages with word count in the lower right corner.
This item is part of a collection of materials related to Siegfried's Journey, the third volume of Sassoon's autobiography. The collection includes an autograph manuscript of a draft (MA 5135.1), a second autograph manuscript of a draft in three parts (MA 5135.2-4), and two corrected typescripts (MA 5135.5-6). See collection record for more information.
With corrections throughout the manuscript.
Written in a black leather notebook commercially available in England as "No. 7 in the 'Kensington' Series" from Society Stationery.
Provenance
Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
A draft of chapters 1-5 of Sassoon's autobiography for the years 1916-20.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (29.2 cm)
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