Papers, 1917-1965.

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Papers, 1917-1965.

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Letters and manuscripts by and relating to Wilfred Owen, including seven letters written by Owen to Sassoon, Nov. 5, 1917 to Oct. 10, 1918; 21 letters from the poet's mother, Mrs. Susan Owen, to Sassoon, 1921-1933; 28 letters written by the poet's brother, Harold Owen, to Sassoon, 1921-1957; two letters written by the poet's cousin, Leslie Gunston, to Sassoon, 1921, and Edmund Blunden, 1930; three letters from the Owen scholar, Denis S.R. Welland, to Sassoon, 1950; and two letters from Chatto & Windus and Oxford University Press to Sassoon, 1946 and 1965. The letters written by Owen to Sassoon date from shortly after Owen left the Craiglockhart War Hospital to a few weeks before Owen's death on November 5, 1918, and cover the period of Owen's greatest achievement as a war poet; they have been published in the COLLECTED LETTERS OF WILFRED OWEN, 1961, edited by Harold Owen and John Bell.

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967

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Oxford University Press, Inc., 1964, 1971

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Owen, Harold, 1897-1971

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Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974

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Bell, John, -1860

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Owen, Wilfred, 1893-1918

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Owen, Susan, 1955-

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Welland, Denis S. R.

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Gunston, Leslie.

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