Siegfried Sassoon collection. -- -1917-1936. --

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Siegfried Sassoon collection. -- -1917-1936. --

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181807339

The collection consists of correspondence, poetry manuscripts, and typescript of part of Memoirs of An Infantry Officer (1930), the second volume of the Sherston trilogy. There is also Sasson correspondence in the fonds of C. K. Odgen and Bertrand Russell.

3 cm of textual records.

McMaster University

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Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967

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Poet and writer Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 at Weirleigh, near Matfield in Kent. His mother, Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, was from a prominent family of sculptors and artists, while his father, Alfred Ezra Sassoon, came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. His father left home when he was seven and died soon after, so Siegfried and his brothers, Michael and Hamo, were raised solely by their mother. Educated at Marlborough College (1902-4), Sassoon read law at Cl...