are a small but indicative part of a unique body of [Siegfried] Sassoon's personal notes, unpublished poems, sketches and correspondence written over nearly half a century and at risk of being lost to the country. Cambridge University Library has begun a campaign to raise £1.25 million to buy Sassoon's personal papers from his family and to save the archive from being sold to one of the wealthier American universities that have already bought up much of Britain's literary heritage.
from The Times: Cambridge campaigns to stop Siegfried Sassoon war notebooks going abroad
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