Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war.
The collection consists of letters, clippings, postcards and pamphlets received by Siegfried Sassoon from Edith, Osbert and Sacheverelle Sitwell containing their comments on the English literary and social scene. Included is a catalog of Cecil Beaton's paintings and photographs which contains an appreciation by Osbert Sitwell.
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Siegfried Sassoon Papers of the Sitwells, 1918-1957 (Cage 165)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The letters and other papers received by Siegfried Sassoon were acquired by Washington State University Library in June 1975 from the House of El Dieff, N. Y., and who had purchased them at Christie's London, at the Sassoon sale of June 4, 1975.
Thomas Balston Papers of the Sitwells, 1924-1960
Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell Papers, 1917-1972
Nina Hamnett Papers, 1914-1953
Stephen Tennant Papers, 1929-1977
Ada Leverson Letters from the Sitwells, circa 1920-1935
Stephen Tennant Papers, 1945-1953
Edith Sitwell Correspondence, 1922-1964
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