68607: The Investiture

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posted on 2024-04-24, 14:23 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Typescript of poem with one underlining in ink. Found in a volume including other poems from Siegfried Sassoon's 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' (1918) bound in blue leather, dedicated to Robert Ross. Letters from Sassoon to Ross as well as letters between Ross and William Heineman, Sassoon's publisher, were also included in this volume. Also includes a quotation from Henri Barbusse's war-time novel 'Under Fire' (1915) in Sassoon's hand.

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Identifier

9742.jpg | SSHRC_062.jpg

Creator

Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)

Date

January to March 1918

Date Created

31/12/1913

Temporal Date

30/03/1914

Spatial

Unknown

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Format

Typescript

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Harry Ransom Center / The Siegfried Sassoon Literary Estate

Collection ID

The Siegfried Sassoon Collection

Repository Name

The Harry Ransom Center

Repository Address

The University of Texas at Austin, 21st and Guadalupe Streets, Austin, Texas, 78712, USA

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Poems

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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