SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. A group of 10 autograph manuscript (9) and typescript (1) notes for poetry lectures and readings in America, ca. 1920, 20 pages, 8vo-4to, the manuscripts virtually all in ink on various types of paper, some minor wear. Comprises: "Talk about Poetry. (Smith Coll.)," 2 pages, 4to, including titles of poems to be read on verso, the notes beginning: "Describe going to the Morgan Library, & reading Keats M.S...."; Notes for lecture on poetry-reading, 2 pp., 8vo, dated "Greenwich Village Theatre. April 18, 1920"; "Women's League speech. March 10," 2 pages, oblong 8vo , on the Great War; "Outline of Cosmopolitan Speech & Reading," 3 pages, 4to ; Lecture on English poetry since 1914, 3 pages, 4to , dated "April 12"; "War Poems," one page, 8vo , notes for lecture; Notes on lecture and reading, one page, 8vo ; List of poems to be read at Columbia, one page, 8vo, in pencil ; List of poems to be read, 2 pages, 8vo, in ink and pencil , dated "26-5-20"; Typescript entitled "Preliminary Address," 3 pages, 4to, double-spaced, light revisions by Sassoon , given before reading his war poems. (10)
SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. A group of 10 autograph manuscript (9) and typescript (1) notes for poetry lectures and readings in America, ca. 1920, 20 pages, 8vo-4to, the manuscripts virtually all in ink on various types of paper, some minor wear. Comprises: "Talk about Poetry. (Smith Coll.)," 2 pages, 4to, including titles of poems to be read on verso, the notes beginning: "Describe going to the Morgan Library, & reading Keats M.S...."; Notes for lecture on poetry-reading, 2 pp., 8vo, dated "Greenwich Village Theatre. April 18, 1920"; "Women's League speech. March 10," 2 pages, oblong 8vo , on the Great War; "Outline of Cosmopolitan Speech & Reading," 3 pages, 4to ; Lecture on English poetry since 1914, 3 pages, 4to , dated "April 12"; "War Poems," one page, 8vo , notes for lecture; Notes on lecture and reading, one page, 8vo ; List of poems to be read at Columbia, one page, 8vo, in pencil ; List of poems to be read, 2 pages, 8vo, in ink and pencil , dated "26-5-20"; Typescript entitled "Preliminary Address," 3 pages, 4to, double-spaced, light revisions by Sassoon , given before reading his war poems. (10)
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