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Creator
Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Sassoon
Physical description
669 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Access to materials
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Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online.

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, as well as portraits and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

Siegfried Sassoon was a British novelist, poet, and biographer.

Scope and arrangement

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.

The Siegfried Sassoon collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

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.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Related Material

Consult the Berg Collection staff for additional unprocessed material, including approx. 400 letters by and to the author.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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