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DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjkag.2
title: Concert Party (Egyptian Base Camp)

description: Manuscript in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a collection of manuscript drafts of fifty of Siegfried Sassoon's poems. In a note at the back of the volume dated 20th December 1924 Sassoon writes that the blank pages are the rest of my life'. He adds that I made this manuscript when considering my choice for Selected Poems', 1925'. At a later date he adds that numerous redundant pages were removed when the book was rebound in 1953'. A digitally photographed facsimile of the volume was included in the Imperial War Museum's War Poets' exhibition in London in 2003. This poem was also published in 'Picture Show' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjptq.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes displeasure at having shifted battalions / calculates likelihood of death / describes new officers and their taste, or lack thereof, in poetry, as well as relationship with the enlisted men / correspondence and friendship with a friend from Charterhouse / discusses the 'New Poetry' and Robert Graves' ability to write / desire for a wound or a transfer out / mentions Edward Marsh's 'Memoir' for Rupert Brooke and the problems of over-protective mothers / apologises for not having visited on most recent leave / includes drafts of the poems 'Through the Periscope', 'Limbo', 'I Hate the Moon', 'The Adventurer' and 'The First Funeral' / notes that he will be moving back up to the front line shortly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjvzb.2
title: The Unicorn

description: Typescript of the second version of the verse play, containing 'Tel's Song', with ink additions and corrections.  Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianlz4.2
title: Base Details

description: Manuscript in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a collection of manuscript drafts of fifty of Siegfried Sassoon's poems. In a note at the back of the volume dated 20th December 1924 Sassoon writes that the blank pages are the rest of my life'. He adds that I made this manuscript when considering my choice for Selected Poems', 1925'. At a later date he adds that numerous redundant pages were removed when the book was rebound in 1953'. A digitally photographed facsimile of the volume was included in the Imperial War Museum's War Poets' exhibition in London in 2003. This poem was also published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrfk.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Offers Edward Marsh consolations over the death of his friend the poet Rupert Brooke / describes sleeping through a barrage but being awoken by a lark / includes the poem 'It's a Queer Time' / objections to new attachment system in the army, which has separated Robert Graves from his original battalion / apologises for the quality of the poetry and having sent it to Marsh / tells Marsh that he will be moving up the trenches closer to the German lines shortly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianxb5.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes displeasure at having shifted battalions / calculates likelihood of death / describes new officers and their taste, or lack thereof, in poetry, as well as relationship with the enlisted men / correspondence and friendship with a friend from Charterhouse / discusses the 'New Poetry' and Robert Graves' ability to write / desire for a wound or a transfer out / mentions Edward Marsh's 'Memoir' for Rupert Brooke and the problems of over-protective mothers / apologises for not having visited on most recent leave / includes drafts of the poems 'Through the Periscope', 'Limbo', 'I Hate the Moon', 'The Adventurer' and 'The First Funeral' / notes that he will be moving back up to the front line shortly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1w9.2
title: The Death Bed

description: Manuscript in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a collection of manuscript drafts of fifty of Siegfried Sassoon's poems. In a note at the back of the volume dated 20th December 1924 Sassoon writes that the blank pages are the rest of my life'. He adds that I made this manuscript when considering my choice for Selected Poems', 1925'. At a later date he adds that numerous redundant pages were removed when the book was rebound in 1953'. A digitally photographed facsimile of the volume was included in the Imperial War Museum's War Poets' exhibition in London in 2003. This poem was also published in 'The Old Huntsman' (1917).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2jtz.2
title: The Unicorn

description: Pencil draft of a complete copy of the second version of the verse play, containing second half of line 146, then stage directions, 147-148 cancelled, six unused cancelled lines; on the left-hand page are is one unused line and line 131.  Lines 61-173 of this draft differs from the copy text, whereas the remainder of the play relates more closely.  Numbered '12', on an incomplete page torn from an exercise book.  Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2le1.2
title: Postcard: To Edward Marsh.

description: Service postcard with all but 'I am quite well' and 'Letter follows at first opportunity' crossed off.  Signed by Robert Graves.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ywl.2
title: Banishment

description: Manuscript in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a collection of manuscript drafts of fifty of Siegfried Sassoon's poems. In a note at the back of the volume dated 20th December 1924 Sassoon writes that the blank pages are the rest of my life'. He adds that I made this manuscript when considering my choice for Selected Poems', 1925'. At a later date he adds that numerous redundant pages were removed when the book was rebound in 1953'. A digitally photographed facsimile of the volume was included in the Imperial War Museum's War Poets' exhibition in London in 2003. This poem was also published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian5ef.2
title: The First Funeral

description: Final lines to 'The Adventurer' and 'The First Funeral' contained within a letter to Edward Marsh which describes displeasure at having shifted battalions / calculates likelihood of death / describes new officers and their taste, or lack thereof, in poetry, as well as relationship with the enlisted men / correspondence and friendship with a friend from Charterhouse / discusses the 'New Poetry' and Robert Graves' ability to write / desire for a wound or a transfer out / mentions Edward Marsh's 'Memoir' for Rupert Brooke and the problems of over-protective mothers / apologises for not having visited on most recent leave. Also includes drafts of the poems 'Through the Periscope', 'Limbo' and 'I Hate the Moon'. Graves notes that he will be moving back up to the front line shortly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian66rp.2
title: Limbo

description: Contained within a letter to Edward Marsh which describes displeasure at having shifted battalions / calculates likelihood of death / describes new officers and their taste, or lack thereof, in poetry, as well as relationship with the enlisted men / correspondence and friendship with a friend from Charterhouse / discusses the 'New Poetry' and Robert Graves' ability to write / desire for a wound or a transfer out / mentions Edward Marsh's 'Memoir' for Rupert Brooke and the problems of over-protective mothers / apologises for not having visited on most recent leave. Also includes drafts of the poems 'Through the Periscope', 'I Hate the Moon', 'The Adventurer' and 'The First Funeral' / notes that he will be moving back up to the front line shortly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6vcw.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes displeasure at having shifted battalions / calculates likelihood of death / describes new officers and their taste, or lack thereof, in poetry, as well as relationship with the enlisted men / correspondence and friendship with a friend from Charterhouse / discusses the 'New Poetry' and Robert Graves' ability to write / desire for a wound or a transfer out / mentions Edward Marsh's 'Memoir' for Rupert Brooke and the problems of over-protective mothers / apologises for not having visited on most recent leave / includes drafts of the poems 'Through the Periscope', 'Limbo', 'I Hate the Moon', 'The Adventurer' and 'The First Funeral' / notes that he will be moving back up to the front line shortly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ydt.2
title: The Unicorn

description: Pencil draft of a complete copy of the second version of the verse play, containing lines 59-61, ten unused lines, then line 75, three cancelled unused lines, and then 4 unused lines.  Lines 61-173 of this draft differs from the copy text, whereas the remainder of the play relates more closely.  Numbered '7', on an incomplete page torn from an exercise book.  Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian81dv.2
title: The Unicorn

description: Pencil draft of a complete copy of the second version of the verse play, containing lines 52-58.  Numbered '6', on a incomplete page torn from an exercise book.  Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian82rn.2
title: Through the Periscope

description: Contained within a letter to Edward Marsh which describes displeasure at having shifted battalions / calculates likelihood of death / describes new officers and their taste, or lack thereof, in poetry, as well as relationship with the enlisted men / correspondence and friendship with a friend from Charterhouse / discusses the 'New Poetry' and Robert Graves' ability to write / desire for a wound or a transfer out / mentions Edward Marsh's 'Memoir' for Rupert Brooke and the problems of over-protective mothers / apologises for not having visited on most recent leave. The letter also includes drafts of the poems  'Limbo', 'I Hate the Moon', 'The Adventurer' and 'The First Funeral' / notes that he will be moving back up to the front line shortly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8gck.2
title: I Stood With the Dead

description: Manuscript in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a collection of manuscript drafts of fifty of Siegfried Sassoon's poems. In a note at the back of the volume dated 20th December 1924 Sassoon writes that the blank pages are the rest of my life'. He adds that I made this manuscript when considering my choice for Selected Poems', 1925'. At a later date he adds that numerous redundant pages were removed when the book was rebound in 1953'. A digitally photographed facsimile of the volume was included in the Imperial War Museum's War Poets' exhibition in London in 2003. This poem was also published in 'Picture-Show' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8n38.2
title: I hate the moon

description: Contained within a letter to Edward Marsh which describes displeasure at having shifted battalions / calculates likelihood of death / describes new officers and their taste, or lack thereof, in poetry, as well as relationship with the enlisted men / correspondence and friendship with a friend from Charterhouse / discusses the 'New Poetry' and Robert Graves' ability to write / desire for a wound or a transfer out / mentions Edward Marsh's 'Memoir' for Rupert Brooke and the problems of over-protective mothers / apologises for not having visited on most recent leave. Also includes drafts of the poems 'Through the Periscope', 'Limbo', 'The Adventurer' and 'The First Funeral'. Graves notes that he will be moving back up to the front line shortly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tp.2
title: The Unicorn

description: Pencil draft of a complete copy of the second version of the verse play, containing lines 76-78, 86-87 then two unused lines, 88-89, 91, three unused lines, 94, seven unused lines, then 103, 105, 104 followed by one unused line.  Lines 61-173 of this draft differs from the copy text, whereas the remainder of the play relates more closely.  Numbered '8', on an incomplete page torn from an exercise book.  On the reverse Isaac Rosenberg has writtne 'Umisol'. Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8wtj.2
title: The Unicorn

description: Pencil draft of a complete copy of the second version of the verse play, containing stage instructions and line 117, then 118, then two unused lines, 122-123, then five unused lines, followed by lines 129-130.  Lines 61-173 of this draft differs from the copy text, whereas the remainder of the play relates more closely.  Numbered '10'; page 9 is missing from this draft.  Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8x1h.2
title: Health

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Health' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandegp.2
title: Health

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Health' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandfli.2
title: Through the Periscope

description: Contained within a letter to Edward Marsh which describes displeasure at having shifted battalions / calculates likelihood of death / describes new officers and their taste, or lack thereof, in poetry, as well as relationship with the enlisted men / correspondence and friendship with a friend from Charterhouse / discusses the 'New Poetry' and Robert Graves' ability to write / desire for a wound or a transfer out / mentions Edward Marsh's 'Memoir' for Rupert Brooke and the problems of over-protective mothers / apologises for not having visited on most recent leave. Also includes drafts of the poems 'Limbo', 'I Hate the Moon', 'The Adventurer' and 'The First Funeral' / notes that he will be moving back up to the front line shortly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandifh.2
title: The Unicorn

description: Pencil draft of a complete copy of the second version of the verse play, containing lines 160-173, 5 unused lines and stage directions following line 165.  Lines 61-173 of this draft differs from the copy text, whereas the remainder of the play relates more closely.  Numbered '14', on the reverse of IR/III/97 on a page torn from an exercise book.  Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandmyz.2
title: The Unicorn

description: Pencil draft of a complete copy of the second version of the verse play, containing lines 46-51 and some unused lines.  Numbered '5', on a page torn from a receipt book numbered '1258'.  Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandsmw.2
title: The Dream

description: Manuscript in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a collection of manuscript drafts of fifty of Siegfried Sassoon's poems. In a note at the back of the volume dated 20th December 1924 Sassoon writes that the blank pages are the rest of my life'. He adds that I made this manuscript when considering my choice for Selected Poems', 1925'. At a later date he adds that numerous redundant pages were removed when the book was rebound in 1953'. A digitally photographed facsimile of the volume was included in the Imperial War Museum's War Poets' exhibition in London in 2003. This poem was also published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandvus.2
title: Postcard: To Edward Marsh.

description: Service postcard with all but 'I am quite well' and 'Letter follows at first opportunity' crossed off.  Signed by Robert Graves.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj5l9.2
title: The Adventurer

description: Contained within a letter to Edward Marsh which describes displeasure at having shifted battalions / calculates likelihood of death / describes new officers and their taste, or lack thereof, in poetry, as well as relationship with the enlisted men / correspondence and friendship with a friend from Charterhouse / discusses the 'New Poetry' and Robert Graves' ability to write / desire for a wound or a transfer out / mentions Edward Marsh's 'Memoir' for Rupert Brooke and the problems of over-protective mothers / apologises for not having visited on most recent leave. Also includes drafts of the poems 'Through the Periscope', 'Limbo', 'I Hate the Moon' and 'The First Funeral' / notes that he will be moving back up to the front line shortly.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj8gz.2
title: Health

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Health' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9y4.2
title: The Unicorn

description: Pencil draft of a complete copy of the second version of the verse play, containing lines 79-85, four unused lines, 100-1, then one unused line, then 105, ten unused lines, then line 75, three cancelled unused lines, and then 4 unused lines.  Lines 61-173 of this draft differs from the copy text, whereas the remainder of the play relates more closely.  Numbered '7', on the reverse of IR/III/94 written on an incomplete page torn from an exercise book.  Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjnmv.2
title: Home [2]

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Home [2]' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianrdtd.2
title: The Unicorn

description: Pencil draft of a complete copy of the second version of the verse play, containing one unused line, lines 134-136, then 3 unused lines, stage directions following 133, then line 130, followed by 143-146." Lines 61-173 of this draft differs from the copy text, whereas the remainder of the play relates more closely.  Numbered '11', on an incomplete page torn from an exercise book.  Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian29rs.2
title: Self-portrait

description: Pencil drawing self-portrait by Isaac Rosenberg on the reverse of part of a letter to Edward Marsh, rotated 90 degrees and inscribed 'Isaac Rosenberg / his outer semblance/ ' and '22311 Pt I rosenberg 11th K. O. R. L.  B.E.F. / I have gone back to the trenches $ send you this / souvenir.  'Before sh' (canceled) Above is my new address. / The line above the helmet is the Germans front line / 100 yards away.'
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2box.2
title: She dotes

description: The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after it's first line. The poem is number 64 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2t5o.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Thanks Edward Marsh for comments on Robert Graves' verses / notes on volume 'Over the Brazier' / likelihood that leave will be canceled / the German dead / celebrating St. David's Day.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2vxv.2
title: The Unicorn

description: Pencil draft of a complete copy of the second version of the verse play, containing lines 174-186.  Numbered '15', on an incomplete sheet of blue paper.  Isaac Rosenberg abandoned work on 'The Amulet' in July of 1917, and used many lines of the former verse play for 'The Unicorn'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6f7t.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Thanks Edward Marsh for comments on Robert Graves' verses / notes on volume 'Over the Brazier' / likelihood that leave will be canceled / the German dead / celebrating St. David's Day.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6g1c.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes move to Le Havre and new duties as an instructor of soldiers arriving in France / fellow instructors / the reputation of the Royal Welch Fusiliers / drinking with roommate / impressions of Le Havre / impressions of Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'Crimson of War' published in The Times / description of a training ground accident with a grenade / difficulties of writing and then sharing poetry with one's family / includes poem 'The Fusilier' / desire to get away from training ground / images of the training ground / discusses some poems sent to Edward Marsh via Robert Graves' father / hope that Marsh will continue to write when he has the time.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6h7e.2
title: Melancholy

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Melancholy' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6i1j.2
title: She dotes

description: This manuscript is untitled but is named here after it's first line as it appears in Edward Thomas the Collected Poems (no. 64).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6l8o.2
title: Head and shoulders postcard of Isaac Rosenberg in military uniform

description: Inscribed in ink 'To Gordon Bottomley / from Isaac Rosenberg / Sep 1917.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6qu.2
title: Died of Wounds

description: Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. Signed by Sassoon. The poem was published in 'The Old Huntsman' (1917). Note on a postcard included with the poem in Prof Edward Dent's hand dated 8th September 1940, asking if the Fitzwilliam Museum is still collecting 'autographs of Cambridge poets'. Dent also notes that he believes this copy of 'Died of Wounds' to be the first, 'although it is undated'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian858l.2
title: Head and shoulders postcard photograph of Isaac Rosenberg in military uniform

description: Inscribed in ink, 'I. R. / to G. B. 1917'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8672.2
title: Song [1]

description: This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Song' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8cif.2
title: Memory

description: Manuscript in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Included in a collection of manuscript drafts of fifty of Siegfried Sassoon's poems. In a note at the back of the volume dated 20th December 1924 Sassoon writes that the blank pages are the rest of my life'. He adds that I made this manuscript when considering my choice for Selected Poems', 1925'. At a later date he adds that numerous redundant pages were removed when the book was rebound in 1953'. A digitally photographed facsimile of the volume was included in the Imperial War Museum's War Poets' exhibition in London in 2003. This poem was also published in 'Picture-Show' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8k7v.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Thanks Edward Marsh for comments on Robert Graves' verses / notes on volume 'Over the Brazier' / likelihood that leave will be canceled / the German dead / celebrating St. David's Day.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8zke.2
title: Letter: To Edward Marsh

description: Describes move to Le Havre and new duties as an instructor of soldiers arriving in France / fellow instructors / the reputation of the Royal Welch Fusiliers / drinking with roommate / impressions of Le Havre / impressions of Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'Crimson of War' published in The Times / description of a training ground accident with a grenade / difficulties of writing and then sharing poetry with one's family / includes poem 'The Fusilier' / desire to get away from training ground / images of the training ground / discusses some poems sent to Edward Marsh via Robert Graves' father / hope that Marsh will continue to write when he has the time.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianda27.2
title: A Cat

description: The manuscript is untitled but entitled 'A Cat' in Edward Thomas Selected Poems