Engagement diary, 1920.

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Engagement diary, 1920.

Record of lecture engagements on tour of America. Includes business appointments, entertainment, and sums received and spent. Sassoon included a long account of his lecture tour in America in SIEGFRIED'S JOURNEY, 1945, pp. 170-224. The diary provides many factual and financial details, otherwise unknown.

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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...