Siegfried Sassoon's return to Cambridge
The archive of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon has been delivered to the Cambridge University Library after a campaign to raise £1.25m. Siegfried Sassoon was an English poet and author who is among the sixteen Great War Poets commemorated in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. Sassoon was an undergraduate at the university and became an honorary fellow of Clare College.
The collection includes the diaries Sassoon kept on the Western Front and in Palestine between 1915 and 1918, a manuscript of Sassoon's statement refusing to return to duty after being wounded and notebooks with records of his school days and post-war journals and the progress of his literary career.
The library bought the collection after a successful fundraising drive - helped by a £550,000 grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund. Other organisations which helped fund the purchase of the collection included the Monument Trust, the JP Getty Jr Trust and Sir Siegmund Warburg's Voluntary Settlement. Private individuals also contributed.
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