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Sassoon fund gains £550,000 boost
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A campaign to save the papers of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon for the nation has been bolstered by a grant of £550,000.
The National Heritage Memorial Fund’s award to Cambridge University puts it closer to raising the £1.25m needed to permanently secure the collection.
It includes a manuscript of Sassoon’s statement refusing to return to duty after being wounded.
The poet, whose work captured the futility of war, died in 1967.
The Cambridge University campaign to purchase Sassoon’s papers from his family is led by his official biographer Max Egremont.
The grant will leave the fund with £110,000 still to raise.
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet and author. He became known as a writer of satirical anti-war verse during World War I. He later won acclaim for his prose work.
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