SACHEVERELL SITWELL. (1897 - 1988). A MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK, POETRY AND DIARY ENTRIES, 1917-1920. a ruled notebook written in Sacheverell's hand, containing poetry, notes, diary entries and a few names and addresses. brown marbled boards, folio. (32 x 20.5cm), approx. 37pp. of poetry, mostly dated 1917-1918, with 72pp. of diary entries written in pencil from 1917-1920, the poems include 'Constantinople', July 26th 1915 Marlowe' - 'The Nightingale', January 1917 - 'AVENUE' 7. VI. 1917 - 'SIRENS' 12. VI. 1917 - 'Brighton Pier' - 'the Coronet Solo' - 'The Trapeze from Perspectives' 12.3.1918 - 'The Mayor of Murcia Part III & Part IV 14.4.1918 - 'The Speech' - and 'Barrell Organs'; the diary entries closely written on one or two lines, begin on May 23rd, 1917, 'Went to Renishaw', and end on September 17th, 1920, '. . . Kensington Palace then dinner with Lewis, to Edith & Helen, Seymours, Roderick, Gabriel- Siegfried'. a detailed record of Sacheverell and the Sitwell family's lives during the latter years of the Great War. The entries for 1917 note, 'August 21st (1917), Osbert to Renishaw, (A year ago today he and I came to London . . ' - 'Sept 4th, (1917) Zeppelins, dinner on guard, Osbert Lutyens' - 'September 29th (1917) the Great Air Raid'. Sacheverell and his older brother Osbert, both serving with the Grenadier Guards, continue to enjoy a hectic social life, enjoying lunches, teas, dinners, and parties with their arts and literary friends such as Ezra Pound, Cecil Beaton, Charlie Chaplin, T.S. Eliot, Augustus John Siegfried Sassoon, Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Arnold Bennett, Vanessa and Clive Bell, to name a few. Sacheverell is on and off duty throughout, meeting regularly with his sister Edith and her companion Helen Rootham, and attending Diaghilev's latest ballet performances. Life is being lived to the full whilst the war goes on in the background. The Sitwells busy themselves with their writings and work, 'Sept 15th (1917) first copy of 'Tides' appears' - ' April 9th (1918) mother to lunch, corrected my proofs of 'People's Palace' - ' Aug 4th (1918) Osbert on duty, Chile (Álvaro Guevara) in morning, his drawings of 'Bicyclists' for the third volume of 'Wheels' - ' Aug 7th (1918) proof read 'Wheels' vol III' - 'November 11th (1918) PEACE AT LAST' - 'November 12th (1918) Montie's Peace party 4pm'. Sacheverell notes family birthdays such as 'Osbert's 26th birthday (1892-1918)' - ' September 7th Edith's 33 birthday (1887-1920)', the close friendships between the three Sitwell siblings is apparent throughout, 'June 27th (1919), tea with 'the Coalbox' - Edith and Mitfords . . . good humoured ladies', - ' March 27th (1919) Osbert gets his passport for Monte Carlo, Edith gets it done for him', Sacheverell's later entries record 'July 29th (1919) Bloomsbury party' - ' August 10th (1919) The King, Queen, Princess Mary and Prince Albert to tea - panic,'; written in black ink to the lower pastedown is a list of eleven friend's names and addresses including T.S Eliot, Wyndham Lewis Ethelbert White Paul Nash Aldous Huxley and others; with five additional notes, including an Autographed letter loosely inserted, each written in Sacheverell's hand, one written to Balliol College, Oxford, printed headed notepaper, dated 14.2.19, two written to Grenadier Guards, Albuhera Barracks, Aldershot, blue headed notepaper, one of which is an Autographed letter from Sacheverell, dated August 28. 1918, 'Dear Sir, Please send your new Catalogue of books. Include in particular, . . .the old Italian Theatre & old Italian Theatrical Prints.'.Provenance: The Sitwell Family Library, Weston Hall.
SACHEVERELL SITWELL. (1897 - 1988). A MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK, POETRY AND DIARY ENTRIES, 1917-1920. a ruled notebook written in Sacheverell's hand, containing poetry, notes, diary entries and a few names and addresses. brown marbled boards, folio. (32 x 20.5cm), approx. 37pp. of poetry, mostly dated 1917-1918, with 72pp. of diary entries written in pencil from 1917-1920, the poems include 'Constantinople', July 26th 1915 Marlowe' - 'The Nightingale', January 1917 - 'AVENUE' 7. VI. 1917 - 'SIRENS' 12. VI. 1917 - 'Brighton Pier' - 'the Coronet Solo' - 'The Trapeze from Perspectives' 12.3.1918 - 'The Mayor of Murcia Part III & Part IV 14.4.1918 - 'The Speech' - and 'Barrell Organs'; the diary entries closely written on one or two lines, begin on May 23rd, 1917, 'Went to Renishaw', and end on September 17th, 1920, '. . . Kensington Palace then dinner with Lewis, to Edith & Helen, Seymours, Roderick, Gabriel- Siegfried'. a detailed record of Sacheverell and the Sitwell family's lives during the latter years of the Great War. The entries for 1917 note, 'August 21st (1917), Osbert to Renishaw, (A year ago today he and I came to London . . ' - 'Sept 4th, (1917) Zeppelins, dinner on guard, Osbert Lutyens' - 'September 29th (1917) the Great Air Raid'. Sacheverell and his older brother Osbert, both serving with the Grenadier Guards, continue to enjoy a hectic social life, enjoying lunches, teas, dinners, and parties with their arts and literary friends such as Ezra Pound, Cecil Beaton, Charlie Chaplin, T.S. Eliot, Augustus John Siegfried Sassoon, Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Arnold Bennett, Vanessa and Clive Bell, to name a few. Sacheverell is on and off duty throughout, meeting regularly with his sister Edith and her companion Helen Rootham, and attending Diaghilev's latest ballet performances. Life is being lived to the full whilst the war goes on in the background. The Sitwells busy themselves with their writings and work, 'Sept 15th (1917) first copy of 'Tides' appears' - ' April 9th (1918) mother to lunch, corrected my proofs of 'People's Palace' - ' Aug 4th (1918) Osbert on duty, Chile (Álvaro Guevara) in morning, his drawings of 'Bicyclists' for the third volume of 'Wheels' - ' Aug 7th (1918) proof read 'Wheels' vol III' - 'November 11th (1918) PEACE AT LAST' - 'November 12th (1918) Montie's Peace party 4pm'. Sacheverell notes family birthdays such as 'Osbert's 26th birthday (1892-1918)' - ' September 7th Edith's 33 birthday (1887-1920)', the close friendships between the three Sitwell siblings is apparent throughout, 'June 27th (1919), tea with 'the Coalbox' - Edith and Mitfords . . . good humoured ladies', - ' March 27th (1919) Osbert gets his passport for Monte Carlo, Edith gets it done for him', Sacheverell's later entries record 'July 29th (1919) Bloomsbury party' - ' August 10th (1919) The King, Queen, Princess Mary and Prince Albert to tea - panic,'; written in black ink to the lower pastedown is a list of eleven friend's names and addresses including T.S Eliot, Wyndham Lewis Ethelbert White Paul Nash Aldous Huxley and others; with five additional notes, including an Autographed letter loosely inserted, each written in Sacheverell's hand, one written to Balliol College, Oxford, printed headed notepaper, dated 14.2.19, two written to Grenadier Guards, Albuhera Barracks, Aldershot, blue headed notepaper, one of which is an Autographed letter from Sacheverell, dated August 28. 1918, 'Dear Sir, Please send your new Catalogue of books. Include in particular, . . .the old Italian Theatre & old Italian Theatrical Prints.'.Provenance: The Sitwell Family Library, Weston Hall.
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