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Object description
Bound volume (104pp, of which 27pp hold cuttings and with 4 loose items) containing ms/ts letters and press cuttings compiled and in places hand-annotated by Siegfried Sassoon, mainly concerning public reaction to his declaration in July 1917 against the continuance of the war, but also his support of the political candidacy of Philip Snowden for the Blackburn seat during the General Election of December 1918. The correspondence covers the period June 1917 - January 1919 and includes letters to Sassoon from Colonel H Jones-Williams, OC 3rd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers to whom Sassoon would later send his protest letter; Captain E R Kearsley of the 3rd Battalion RWF who congratulates him on "a magnificent bombing raid with the 2nd Battalion"; H B Lees-Smith MP who raised Sassoon's case in Parliament; the novelist H G Wells; the pacifist Max Plowman (later author of A SUBALTERN ON THE SOMME under the nom de plume "Mark VII"); and the Labour MP (later Chancellor of the Exchequer) Philip Snowden. The album also contains the War Office letter of 18 February 1919 informing Sassoon of the Medical Board's decision to classify him as medically unfit for further service, placing him on the retired list with the rank of Captain, together with a photocopy of his declaration dated July 1917.
Content description
Bound volume (104pp, of which 27pp hold cuttings and with 4 loose items) containing ms/ts letters and press cuttings compiled and in places hand-annotated by Siegfried Sassoon, mainly concerning public reaction to his declaration in July 1917 against the continuance of the war, but also his support of the political candidacy of Philip Snowden for the Blackburn seat during the General Election of December 1918. The correspondence covers the period June 1917 - January 1919 and includes letters to Sassoon from Colonel H Jones-Williams, OC 3rd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers to whom Sassoon would later send his protest letter; Captain E R Kearsley of the 3rd Battalion RWF who congratulates him on "a magnificent bombing raid with the 2nd Battalion"; H B Lees-Smith MP who raised Sassoon's case in Parliament; the novelist H G Wells; the pacifist Max Plowman (later author of A SUBALTERN ON THE SOMME under the nom de plume "Mark VII"); and the Labour MP (later Chancellor of the Exchequer) Philip Snowden. The album also contains the War Office letter of 18 February 1919 informing Sassoon of the Medical Board's decision to classify him as medically unfit for further service, placing him on the retired list with the rank of Captain, together with a photocopy of his declaration dated July 1917.
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Catalogue date 1999-03-30