Siegfried Sassoon collection of papers

id
5641
origination
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967
date statement
1905]-1975 [bulk 1915-1951]
key date
1905
identifier (local_mss)
19142
org unit
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
call number
Berg Coll MSS Sassoon
b-number
b15847649
total components
125
total series
3
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:05:22 UTC
updated
2026-08-16 02:09:40 UTC
status note
(missing)
Display Aeon link
true

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physdesc
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unitid
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unitdate
{"value"=>"1905]-1975", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1905/1975", "certainty"=>"inferred"}
{"value"=>"1915-1951", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1915/1951"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Siegfried Sassoon collection of papers"}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, as well as portraits and pictorial works."}
prefercite
{"value"=>"<p>[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.</p>"}
origination
{"value"=>"Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967", "type"=>"persname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p>Siegfried Sassoon was a British novelist, poet, and biographer.</p>"}
custodhist
{"value"=>"<p>Former owners include Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Leonard Clark, W. T. H. Howe, and Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong. The bound manuscript of \"Picture-show and Other Poems\" is inscribed by the author to Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, as well as portraits and pictorial works. The collection includes holograph poems, as well as manuscripts and a typescript about the author and his works by Joe Randolph Ackerley, Robert Graves, and Humbert Wolfe. It also contains poems by Frank Prewett copied in the author's hand. The correspondence includes letters written by the author, from [1905] to 1964, to Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong, Gabriel Atkin, Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, Robert Graves, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Thomas Moult, Teresa Sassoon, Edith Sitwell, Virginia Woolf, and others; as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1918 to 1975, between various correspondents, including Felicitas Corrigan, Leonard Clark, Robert Graves, James Burton Pond, James B. Pinker and Son, and others. There are letters to Sassoon from Christopher Hassall, Robert Graves, Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols, Hamo Sassoon, Glen Byam Shaw, Frank Arthur Swinnerton, Stephen Tennant, Margaret Turnbell, Doris Westwood, and others, dating from [1916?] to 1963.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Siegfried Sassoon collection of papers are arranged in three series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19142#c244986'>Manuscripts and Typescripts</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19142#c245034'>Correspondence</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/brg/19142#c245102'>Portraits and Pictorial Works</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p>This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.</p>"}
userestrict
{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.</p>"}
relatedmaterial
{"value"=>"<p>Consult the Berg Collection staff for additional unprocessed material, including approx. 400 letters by and to the author.</p>"}
date_inclusive_start
1905
date_inclusive_end
1975
note
{"value"=>"<p>Consult the Berg Collection staff for additional unprocessed material, including approx. 400 letters by and to the author</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Card catalog available.</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"555"}
keydate
1905
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.</p>"}
extent_statement
669 items
date_start
1905
date_end
1975
date_bulk_start
1915
date_bulk_end
1951

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