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Contains 13 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence to Siegfried Sassoon, 1916-1934
Series — Box: 1
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Scope and Contents
Siegfried Lorraine Sassoon (1886-1967) was a British poet and prose writer. His best known works include some one hundred poems that expose the horror of the trenches and protest the continuation of World War I. After the war, Sassoon also produced a series of autobiographical works. The partially fictionalized Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Three more autobiographical works, including...
Dates:
1916-1934
Works by Lady Ottoline Morrell, 1916 and 1938
Series — Box: 1
2
Scope and Contents
Both items are short essays composed by Lady Ottoline. "Garsington" is a typewritten description of her feelings and hopes for her new country home. The second item is a printed copy of a February 1, 1936, diary entry. Entitled a "Farewell Message" it was reprinted, along with a 1903 photograph of Morrell, by her husband on the occasion of her death in 1938. These items are arranged chronologically.
Dates:
1916 and 1938
Photographs, 1902-1920s
Series — Box: 1
3
Scope and Contents
The photographs in this series depict both Lady Ottoline Morrell and a number of her literary friends. The three earliest pictures, all taken around 1900, are individual shots of Morrell. At least one of these was taken in 1902 on her honeymoon. The other three, showing her daughter Julian as well as such literary friends as Siegfried Sassoon, Lytton Strachey, Dorothy Brett, Augustine Birrell, Aldous Huxley, H. R. L. Sheppard, Bertrand Russell, Clive Bell, and, perhaps, Frank "Toronto"...
Dates:
1902-1920s
Correspondence to Siegfried Sassoon from Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell, 1916-1934
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Lady Ottoline Morrell papers
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Correspondence to Siegfried Sassoon
Dates:
1916-1934
Correspondence to Siegfried Sassoon from Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell, 1916-1934
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Lady Ottoline Morrell papers
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Correspondence to Siegfried Sassoon
Dates:
1916-1934
"Garsington", 1916
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Lady Ottoline Morrell papers
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Works by Lady Ottoline Morrell
Dates:
1916
"Farewell Message", 1938
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4.0
Found in:
Special Collections and University Archives
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Lady Ottoline Morrell papers
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Works by Lady Ottoline Morrell
Dates:
1938
Lady Ottoline Morrell standing on road in wind-blown field on Berkshire Downs., undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5.0
Dates:
undated
Ottoline Morrell in field on Berkshire Downs with trees in background., undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6.0
Dates:
undated