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DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8vs8.2
title: Reprints

description: Reprint of Siegfried Sassoon's poems published in 'The Cambridge Magazine', reissued here in pamphlet No 7, January 1918. The poems included here are 'Dreamers', 'Does It Matter?', 'Base Details' and 'Glory of Women'. Also includes a list of the work of other poets available through the series. This image advertises for the work of other war-time poets.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ywy.2
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Catalogues a disagreement between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton about practicality and the value of art and classicism in war / describes difference between perceptions and realities of nursing / potential for Roland Leighton to obtain leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand2rb.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: Tunnel under no-man's-land.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand5ki.2
title: Dreamers / Base Details

description: Reprint of Siegfried Sassoon's poems published in 'The Cambridge Magazine', reissued here in pamphlet No 7, January 1918. The poems included here are 'Dreamers', 'Does It Matter?', 'Base Details' and 'Glory of Women'. Also includes a list of the work of other poets available through the series. This image shows the poems 'Dreamers' and 'Base Details'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand8dm.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Discusses reports of his death / concern that he will not be able to get the word to his parents / potential for practical jokes / desires Sassoon to inform friends at the front that he is alive / condition of hospital / 'death' on his 21st birthday .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandncc.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: View inside trench, sap, trench pump.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandtsb.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Thanks for a letter / will send two of Rupert Brooke's volumes and a unknown poet's works, as well as his own 'Over the Brazier' / jokes about the Siegfried Sassoon's likelihood of receiving a military cross / discusses Robert Graves' uncle C. L. Graves' review of various poets for 'The Spectator', including Charles Sorley, possible changes to his poems entitled 'When I see millions of the mouthless dead' and 'Odyssey' / Charles Sorley's sexuality / other poems influencing the younger generation of poets, including the Georgians / potential for going up to Oxford after the war with friends, and desire for Sassoon to come as well / a poem of Sassoon's in the 'Westminster Gazette' / possible post-war cliques based on military service at Oxford following the war / potential for reunions / weekend visitor.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandx18.2
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Discusses how fast the post is / enjoyment at receiving letters / perceptions and musings on the war whilst nursing / questions about Roland Leighton's duties and his attachment to the Staff / desire to send out Rupert Brooke's poems to him / a patient receiving flowers / Edward Brittain to visit / getting used to her V. A. D. uniform / cutting back on tea-time extravagances.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianflm.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: View inside trench.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiangi.2
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Discusses how fast the post is / enjoyment at receiving letters / perceptions and musings on the war whilst nursing / questions about Roland Leighton's duties and his attachment to the Staff / desire to send out Rupert Brooke's poems to him / a patient receiving flowers / Edward Brittain to visit / getting used to her V. A. D. uniform / cutting back on tea-time extravagances.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiani95.2
title: I Stood With the Dead

description: Typescript of poem with corrections in pencil in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. Published in 'Picture-Show' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj6ri.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: Tunnel under no-man's-land.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj7si.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Thanks for a letter / will send two of Rupert Brooke's volumes and a unknown poet's works, as well as his own 'Over the Brazier' / jokes about the Siegfried Sassoon's likelihood of receiving a military cross / discusses Robert Graves' uncle C. L. Graves' review of various poets for 'The Spectator', including Charles Sorley, possible changes to his poems entitled 'When I see millions of the mouthless dead' and 'Odyssey' / Charles Sorley's sexuality / other poems influencing the younger generation of poets, including the Georgians / potential for going up to Oxford after the war with friends, and desire for Sassoon to come as well / a poem of Sassoon's in the 'Westminster Gazette' / possible post-war cliques based on military service at Oxford following the war / potential for reunions / weekend visitor.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjihw.2
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Discusses how fast the post is / enjoyment at receiving letters / perceptions and musings on the war whilst nursing / questions about Roland Leighton's duties and his attachment to the Staff / desire to send out Rupert Brooke's poems to him / a patient receiving flowers / Edward Brittain to visit / getting used to her V. A. D. uniform / cutting back on tea-time extravagances.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjjd5.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Discusses reports of his death / concern that he will not be able to get the word to his parents / potential for practical jokes / desires Sassoon to inform friends at the front that he is alive / condition of hospital / 'death' on his 21st birthday .
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjlk9.2
title: Does It Matter? / Glory of Women

description: Reprint of Siegfried Sassoon's poems published in 'The Cambridge Magazine', reissued here in pamphlet No 7, January 1918. The poems included here are 'Dreamers', 'Does It Matter?', 'Base Details' and 'Glory of Women'. Also includes a list of the work of other poets available through the series. This image shows the poems 'Does It Matter?' and 'Glory of Women'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjvcn.2
title: Canadian Memorial at Passchendaele Ridge

description: View of memorial with wreaths.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr2mx.2
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Discusses how fast the post is / enjoyment at receiving letters / perceptions and musings on the war whilst nursing / questions about Roland Leighton's duties and his attachment to the Staff / desire to send out Rupert Brooke's poems to him / a patient receiving flowers / Edward Brittain to visit / getting used to her V. A. D. uniform / cutting back on tea-time extravagances.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiansmn.2
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianyy1.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Thanks for a letter / will send two of Rupert Brooke's volumes and a unknown poet's works, as well as Robert Graves' own 'Over the Brazier' / jokes about the Siegfried Sassoon's likelihood of receiving a military cross / discusses Robert Graves' uncle C. L. Graves' review of various poets for 'The Spectator', including Charles Sorley, possible changes to his poems entitled 'When I see millions of the mouthless dead' and 'Odyssey' / Charles Sorley's sexuality / other poems influencing the younger generation of poets, including the Georgians / potential for going up to Oxford after the war with friends, and desire for Sassoon to come as well / a poem of Sassoon's in the 'Westminster Gazette' / possible post-war cliques based on military service at Oxford following the war / potential for reunions / weekend visitor.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianzzo.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: With sketches of death masks, graves, obelisks, etc." Discusses Siegfried Sassoon's recent wound and his presence in England / potential for Robert Graves to be released in a fortnight to recover at Harlech / invitation for Sassoon to join him there / continued jokes about his 'death' / his growing appreciation for Charles Sorley / his own potential for a Military Cross or a Victoria Cross, like Sassoon / the fates of the first and second battalions of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian22c4.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: State of Company / a game of squash / discusses the ramifications, political and poetic, of Siegfried Sassoon's declaration against the war, which had just been read out in Parliament.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian23x5.2
title: Siegfried Sassoon reading

description: Photograph of Siegfried Sassoon reading and smoking a pipe on a cot. This photograph was included facing the title page of Sassoon's privately issued collection of poems, 'Recreations' (1923).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian28v.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: View of trench dug-out from above
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2e8k.2
title: Church in Passchendaele town square

description: Viewed from Passchendaele Ridge.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ka4.1
title: Dusk and the Mirror / Lusitania / Significance

description: On page torn from ledger. Contains two pencil drafts of the poem 'Significance' and pencil fragment [You can never bury him]. The 'Lusitania' was a British passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo, 7 May 1915, on a homeward voyage from New York. 1,198 people died, including 100 Americans. A draft of 'Dusk and the Mirror' is on the reverse.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2m2q.2
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Catalogues a disagreement between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton about practicality and the value of art and classicism in war / describes difference between perceptions and realities of nursing / potential for Roland Leighton to obtain leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2ptu.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: View inside trench.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2rt6.2
title: Postcard: To A. T Bartholomew.

description: This image shows the picture-side of the postcard, with a view of Abbotsford and the Elidon Hills.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian63pw.2
title: Postcard: To A. T. Bartholomew.

description: Commends A. T. Bartholomew's work on the proofs for 'The Cambridge Magazine's reprint of his poems for August 1918 / particularly appreciates G. Lowes Dickinson's contribution to the pamphlet / has more poems to send in / is reading 'South Wind'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6k6g.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: With sketches of death masks, graves, obelisks, etc." Discusses Siegfried Sassoon's recent wound and his presence in England / potential for Robert Graves to be released in a fortnight to recover at Harlech / invitation for Sassoon to join him there / continued jokes about his 'death' / his growing appreciation for Charles Sorley / his own potential for a Military Cross or a Victoria Cross, like Sassoon / the fates of the first and second battalions of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6pof.1
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Discusses how fast the post is / enjoyment at receiving letters / perceptions and musings on the war whilst nursing / questions about Roland Leighton's duties and his attachment to the Staff / desire to send out Rupert Brooke's poems to him / a patient receiving flowers / Edward Brittain to visit / getting used to her V. A. D. uniform / cutting back on tea-time extravagances.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6udn.2
title: Slumber Song

description: Musical score showing a setting of Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'Slumber Song', which was initially published in 'Picture Show' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6yy3.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: View of trench from above.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian81fd.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: Trench dug-out.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian83cd.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Remarks and potential corrections on Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'To Any Dead Officer' / upcoming plans and invitation for Sassoon to visit / that Robert Graves is in possession of a manuscript copy of his 'Fairies and Fusiliers' / Robert Nichols vs. Charles Sorley as poets / jokes about Sassoon standing as a pacifist M. P..
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8boa.1
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Discusses Roland Leighton's letters to Vera Brittain and their descriptive and emotional power / his fear on the battlefield / his poetic gifts / her concern for him / the difficulties for women on the home front / his reserve with her in person / how war breaks down conventions.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8h6t.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: With sketches of death masks, graves, obelisks, etc." Discusses Siegfried Sassoon's recent wound and his presence in England / potential for Robert Graves to be released in a fortnight to recover at Harlech / invitation for Sassoon to join him there / continued jokes about his 'death' / his growing appreciation for Charles Sorley / his own potential for a Military Cross or a Victoria Cross, like Sassoon / the fates of the first and second battalions of the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8ldc.2
title: Siegfried Sassoon with officers

description: Photograph of Siegfried Sassoon sitting cross-legged. Cropped from a larger image showing a group of officers. Inscription 'May 1916'.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiana2g.2
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Catalogues a disagreement between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton about practicality and the value of art and classicism in war / describes difference between perceptions and realities of nursing / potential for Roland Leighton to obtain leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand4lj.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Consoles Siegfried Sassoon on death of a hunting friend / describes being busy with army duties /participation in a court martial trial / new acquaintances / travels and enlistments of friends / putting together 'Fairies and Fusilliers' (1917) / thanks for returning a volume of Charles Sorley / death of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiand6n3.2
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Envelope containing letter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcir.2
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Catalogues a disagreement between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton about practicality and the value of art and classicism in war / describes difference between perceptions and realities of nursing / potential for Roland Leighton to obtain leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandcz.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: State of Company / a game of squash / discusses the ramifications, political and poetic, of Siegfried Sassoon's declaration against the war, which had just been read out in Parliament.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandla4.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Remarks and potential corrections on Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'To Any Dead Officer' / upcoming plans and invitation for Sassoon to visit / that Robert Graves is in possession of a manuscript copy of his 'Fairies and Fusiliers' / Robert Nichols vs. Charles Sorley as poets / jokes about Sassoon standing as a pacifist M. P..
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandmxt.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: View of trench from above.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleiandzyb.2
title: Limitations

description: Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand with corrections. Published in 'Picture-Show' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianj9xg.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: Trench with shelter.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjgyi.2
title: Limitations

description: Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand with corrections. Published in 'Picture-Show' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjhn7.1
title: Letter: To Edward Brittain.

description: Discusses feelings about the death of mutual friend Geoffrey Thurlow / its effect on mutual acquaintances / possibility of Vera Brittain caring for the severely wounded Victor Richardson / the difficulties of making her way home at this point in the war / a poem entitled 'In Memoriam' written by Vera Brittain for Geoffrey Thurlow / the irony of the timing of Geoffrey Thurlow's death in relation to Rupert Brooke and to Roland Leighton.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjqld.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Consoles Siegfried Sassoon on death of a hunting friend / describes being busy with army duties /participation in a court martial trial / new acquaintances / travels and enlistments of friends / putting together 'Fairies and Fusilliers' (1917) / thanks for returning a volume of Charles Sorley / death of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjt1.2
title: Invocation

description: Manuscript of poem in blue and black ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean copy without corrections. Published untitled as 'I' in 'The Heart's Journey' (1927).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjuau.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Remarks and potential corrections on Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'To Any Dead Officer' / upcoming plans and invitation for Sassoon to visit / that Robert Graves is in possession of a manuscript copy of his 'Fairies and Fusiliers' / Robert Nichols vs. Charles Sorley as poets / jokes about Sassoon standing as a pacifist M. P..
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianjwi2.2
title: Letter: To Roland Leighton.

description: Catalogues a disagreement between Vera Brittain and Roland Leighton about practicality and the value of art and classicism in war / describes difference between perceptions and realities of nursing / potential for Roland Leighton to obtain leave.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianr88r.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: View of trench from above.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleianvxm.2
title: Ancient History

description: Manuscript of poem in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's hand. This is a clean draft without corrections. Published in 'Picture-Show' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian1o4.2
title: German Machine-Gun Fortification

description: Exterior.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian24rk.2
title: Slumber Song

description: Musical score showing a setting of Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'Slumber Song', which was initially published in 'Picture Show' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian268t.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: View of trench from above.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian27zt.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Consoles Siegfried Sassoon on death of a hunting friend / describes being busy with army duties /participation in a court martial trial / new acquaintances / travels and enlistments of friends / putting together 'Fairies and Fusilliers' (1917) / thanks for returning a volume of Charles Sorley / death of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian29lc.2
title: Sanctuary Wood

description: View of trenches from above.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2qsb.1
title: Letter: to R. C. Trevelyan / The Troop Ship

description: Undated letter to R. C. Trevelyan written in the trenches. Contains 'The Troop Ship', describing the passage from Southampton to France. The postmark on the envelope is 15 June, 1916.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2uyb.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Includes with letters proofs of 'Fairies and Fusiliers' / discusses having been cleared for garrison service abroad / his medical condition and having requested to be sent after one month for service in Egypt / novel 'The Loom of Youth' by Alec Waugh, and Edmund Gosse's reaction to it / a visit to London and meeting with Heinemann, Robert Graves' publisher along with Edward Marsh, etc. / the likelihood of 'Fairies and Fusiliers' being a success / having met and opinion of the Sitwells (Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell) / approval of Siegfried Sassoon's doctor W. H. R. Rivers / hopes that Sassoon is feeling better and that both will get back to poetry writing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2vnd.2
title: Tyne Cot British Military Cemetery

description: Grave of Australian soldier.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian2you.2
title: Overgrown Trenches

description: View of grass grown over trenches.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian4ss.1
title: A worm fed on the heart of Corinth

description: Pencil draft with pencil alterations, also with 6 extra canceled lines and 8 canceled alternative lines to lines 8-10. On a sheet of Y. M. C. A. paper, the printed address almost torn off. Contains, on the back, pencil notes relating to an altercation with a railway Company about an alleged non-payment of fares. Corinth, along with Babylon and Rome, were cities which fell partly due to inner corruption. Corinth was associated with loose living.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian62zg.2
title: Slumber Song

description: Musical score showing a setting of Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'Slumber Song', which was initially published in 'Picture Show' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian67a3.2
title: Break of Day

description: Page proof of poem with corrections in ink in Siegfried Sassoon's and Edward Marsh's hands. Published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6ark.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Includes with letters proofs of 'Fairies and Fusiliers' / discusses having been cleared for garrison service abroad / his medical condition and having requested to be sent after one month for service in Egypt / novel 'The Loom of Youth' by Alec Waugh, and Edmund Gosse's reaction to it / a visit to London and meeting with Heinemann, Robert Graves' publisher along with Edward Marsh, etc. / the likelihood of 'Fairies and Fusiliers' being a success / having met and opinion of the Sitwells (Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell) / approval of Siegfried Sassoon's doctor W. H. R. Rivers / hopes that Sassoon is feeling better and that both will get back to poetry writing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6et6.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Includes with letters proofs of 'Fairies and Fusiliers' / discusses having been cleared for garrison service abroad / his medical condition and having requested to be sent after one month for service in Egypt / novel 'The Loom of Youth' by Alec Waugh, and Edmund Gosse's reaction to it / a visit to London and meeting with Heinemann, Robert Graves' publisher along with Edward Marsh, etc. / the likelihood of 'Fairies and Fusiliers' being a success / having met and opinion of the Sitwells (Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell) / approval of Siegfried Sassoon's doctor W. H. R. Rivers / hopes that Sassoon is feeling better and that both will get back to poetry writing.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6lfu.2
title: Tyne Cot British Military Cemetery

description: View of graves from Stone Cross.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian6xzk.1
title: Spring 1916 / Fragment LXIV

description: Contains Fragment LXIV and "Spring 1916" which was written while Isaac Rosenberg was stationed with the 12th South Lancashires in Blackdown Camp.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian85f4.2
title: Tyne Cot British Military Cemetery

description: New Zealand plaque.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8dzt.2
title: Slumber Song

description: Musical score showing a setting of Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'Slumber Song', which was initially published in 'Picture Show' (1919).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8gyf.2
title: German Machine-Gun Fortification

description: Exterior.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8oro.2
title: Letter: To Siegfried Sassoon.

description: Consoles Siegfried Sassoon on death of a hunting friend / describes being busy with army duties /participation in a court martial trial / new acquaintances / travels and enlistments of friends / putting together 'Fairies and Fusilliers' (1917) / thanks for returning a volume of Charles Sorley / death of the Irish poet Francis Ledwidge.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8tld.2
title: The Investiture

description: Page proof of poem with corrections and notes in pencil and ink in Siegfried Sassoon's and Edward Marsh's hands. Published in 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918).
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian8uzo.1
title: Letter: To Sydney Schiff / Spring, 1916

description: Contains copy of 'Spring, 1916' on page 2.
DOI: 10.5287/bodleian9ro.2
title: Slumber Song

description: Musical score showing a setting of Siegfried Sassoon's poem 'Slumber Song', which was initially published in 'Picture Show' (1919).