Notable patients who stayed in Somerville include the war poets Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon and R. E. Vernède. Sassoon arrived on 2 August 1916. Graves and Sassoon were both to reminisce of their time at Somerville Hospital: "How unlike you to crib my idea of going to the Ladies' College at Oxford", Sassoon wrote to Graves in 1917, and called it "very much like Paradise". At Somerville College, Graves met his first love, a nurse and professional pianist called Marjorie. About his time at Somerville, he wrote: "I enjoyed my stay at Somerville. The sun shone, and the discipline was easy". Alfred Mills was received in the hospital in 1916 and officer Llewelyn Davies died at the college.