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The Gunston collection; miscellaneous items, mostly printed, 1918-1919; letters to Susan Owen, from Sitwell, Nichols, Scott Moncrieff, Berthaud, Sassoon; and to Harold Owen from Sassoon, Graves and Sackville, 1880-20 Oct 1959

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  1. OEF 498-9 letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, 25 Jul 1915 (Collected Letters p.349).
  2. OEF 500 ‘A New Heaven’, [Sep 1916] (CPF 72]
  3. OEF 501 ‘To the Bitter Sweet-heart: a Dream’, [early 1917] (CPF 75). Wilfred Owen has written at the bottom: ‘Experiment in monosyllabics.’
  4. OEF 502 letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, May 1917 (Collected Letters p.250). Includes ‘Roundel’ (CPF 78).
  5. OEF 503 letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, 1 Jul 1917 (Collected Letters p.473). Includes ‘The Fates’ (CPF 83).
  6. OEF 504 letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, Jul 1917 (Wilfred Owen has written ‘Wednesday’) (Collected Letters p.477). Includes ‘Wrestlers’ (CPF 138).
  7. OEF 505-6 letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, 22 Aug 1917 (Collected Letters p.485). Includes ‘Dead-Beat’ (CPF 146).
  8. OEF 507 ‘Anthem for Dead Youth’, [Sep-Oct 1917] (CPF 96). See also 247 and 248.
  9. OEF 508 ‘Sonnet to Beauty’, 29-30 Aug 1917 (CPF 136)
  10. OEF 509 ‘Asleep’, 14 Nov 1917 (CPF 137)
  11. OEF 510 letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, 16 Nov 1917 (Collected Letters p.507)
  12. OEF 511 letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, 25 Nov 1917 (Collected Letters p. 509). Wilfred Owen comments on Leslie Gunston’s poetry.
  13. OEF 512a envelope for 510
  14. OEF 512b envelope for 512c
  15. OEF 512c letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, 30 Dec 1917 (Collected Letters p.519)
  16. OEF 513a letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, 8 Jan 1918 (Collected Letters p.526)
  17. OEF 513b envelope for 513a
  18. OEF 514 letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, 26 Jan 1918 (Wilfred Owen writes ‘Saturday night’) (Collected Letters p.528)
  19. OEF 515 letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, Apr 1918 (Collected Letters p.544). First two leaves missing.
  20. OEF 516-8 letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, 21 Apr 1918 (Collected Letters p.546)
  21. OEF 518b envelope for 516-8
  22. OEF 519-21 letter from Wilfred Owen to Leslie Gunston, 25 Oct 1918 (Collected Letters p.588)
  23. OEF 521b envelope for 519-21
  24. OEF 522 fragment of a letter, n.d.
  25. OEF 523 proof of ‘Song of Songs’, [Sep 1917] (CPF 86). Lightly annotated by Wilfred Owen, with note at bottom reading ‘My first printed Poem!’
  26. OEF 524-5 ‘Ballad of Kings and Christs’, [Oct-Dec 1917] (CPF 126). TS with signature by Wilfred Owen in pencil.
  27. OEF 526 letter from Tailhade to Wilfred Owen, 1 May 1915. Written in French. See also 469-70.
  28. OEF 526a pencil drawing by Susan Owen of Plas Wilmot. Late addition: not part of the Gunston collection.
  29. OEF 527 Tom Owen’s Certificate of Discharge, 1880
  30. OEF 528 Army Order, 20 Feb 1919. Publishes Wilfred Owen’s M.C.
  31. OEF 529 cutting from The Nation, p.539, 26 Jan 1918. Includes ‘The Miners’ (CPF 139).
  32. OEF 530 cutting from The Nation, p.284, 15 Jun 1918. Includes ‘Hospital Barge’ (CPF 129) and ‘Futility’ (CPF 153).
  33. OEF 531 two sheets of music, apparently in the hand of young Wilfred Owen. Entitle ‘Burghers of Calais’.
  34. OEF 532-3 letter from Osbert Sitwell to Susan Owen, n.d., possibly late 1918
  35. OEF 534 letter from Osbert Sitwell to Susan Owen, n.d., possibly early 1919
  36. OEF 535-6 letter from Robert Nichols to Susan Owen, 10 Dec 1920
  37. OEF 537 letter from Robert Nichols to Susan Owen, 11 Nov 1930
  38. OEF 538-40 letter from Scott Moncrieff to Susan Owen, 11 Feb 1921
  39. OEF 541 letter from Scott Moncrieff to Susan Owen, 25 Feb 1921
  40. OEF 542 letter from Pierre Berthaud to Susan Owen, 16 Dec 1920
  41. OEF 543 letter from Pierre Berthaud to Susan Owen, 27 Dec 1920
  42. OEF 544-7 letter from Pierre Berthaud to Susan Owen, 14 Feb 1925. 547 is the envelope.
  43. OEF 548 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 8 Oct 1919
  44. OEF 549 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 15 Oct [no year]
  45. OEF 550 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 22 Aug 1920
  46. OEF 551 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 9 Sep 1920
  47. OEF 552 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 10 Feb 1921
  48. OEF 554 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 20 Feb [no year]
  49. OEF 555 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 26 Feb 1921
  50. OEF 555a letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 3 March [no year]
  51. OEF 555b postcard from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 30 Mar 1921
  52. OEF 556 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 26 Jul [no year]
  53. OEF 557 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 20 Sep 1921
  54. OEF 558 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 14 Oct [no year]
  55. OEF 559 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 14 Jun [no year]
  56. OEF 560 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 21 Dec 1923
  57. OEF 561 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 22 Nov 1928
  58. OEF 562 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 31 Jan 1930
  59. OEF 563 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 15 Mar 1930
  60. OEF 564a letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 11 May 1933
  61. OEF 564b letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 22 May [no year]
  62. OEF 565a letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 1 Jun [no year]
  63. OEF 565b letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 8 Jun [no year]
  64. OEF 566a letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 12 Nov 1933
  65. OEF 566b letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 14 Jan 1935
  66. OEF 567a letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 27 Aug 1935
  67. OEF 567b letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 3 May 1936
  68. OEF 568a letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 4 Nov 1936
  69. OEF 568b letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Susan Owen, 4 Oct 1937
  70. OEF 569 letter from Siegfried Sassoon to Harold Owen, 23 Sep 1959
  71. OEF 570 letter from Robert Graves to Harold Owen, 20 Oct 1959
  72. OEF 571 letter from Lady Margaret Sackville to Harold Owen, 10 Mar 1921

Dates

  • Creation: 1880-20 Oct 1959

Extent

5 folders (74 physical shelfmarks)

Language of Materials

  • English

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Shelfmark

MS. 12282/6

Former reference:

OEF 498-571

Additional Description

Existence and Location of Copies

Researchers should first consult the digital versions available on the World War I Poetry Digital Archive and Jon Stallworthy's edition of Wilfred Owen: The Complete Poems and Fragments (London, 1983; revised 2013).

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