68665: Slumber-Song

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posted on 2024-04-24, 14:30 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Manuscript of poem in ink, signed in pencil by Siegfried Sassoon. This is a clean draft, without corrections. Published in 'Picture-Show' (1919). The poem was also set to music by John Alden Carpenter in 1920.

History

Identifier

9833.jpg | SSOUSJ11.jpg

Creator

Sassoon, Siegfried (1886-1967)

Date

Dec-18

Spatial

England

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

St. John's College Library, Cambridge University / The Siegfried Sassoon Literary Estate

Collection ID

Miscellaneous/Box 15/ SA4/12

Repository Name

St John's College Library

Repository Address

St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP, UK