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51434: Familiar Letter to Siegfried Sassoon

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posted on 2024-04-05, 13:54 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

This poem was sent in reply to Sassoon's ""A Letter Home" (in "The Old Huntsman"(1917)) written to Graves in May 1916. See "Goodbye to All That" for the background to it's composition, during the Battle of the Somme.

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Subject

Imperial Forces | Somme | Trench

Creator

Graves, Robert (1895-1985)

Date

Jul-16

Date Created

01/07/1916

Temporal Date

31/07/1916

Spatial

Unknown

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Type

Poem

Contributor

Everett Sharp

Rights

The Poetry Collection, The University at Buffalo / The Robert Graves Copyright Trust

Collection ID

The Robert Graves Collection: MS 141 Box 85

Repository Name

University Archives, University at Buffalo

Repository Address

University Archives, University at Buffalo, 420 Cappen Hall, Buffalo, New York State, 14260-1674, USA

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Poems Imperial Forces Somme Trench

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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