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Typescript and manuscript drafts of an unpublished essay by Henry Festing Jones. The essay was originally entitled 'George and Harriet Bridges', and begins: 'In the Autumn of 1926, Robert Bridges, the Poet Laureate, honoured me with an invitation to dine and sleep at his house, Chilswell, on Boars Hill. ...'

Album of press cuttings relating to Samuel Butler, beginning in and with the majority dating from 1935. 144 pages, with multiple cuttings pasted on each page and additional loose cuttings inserted at the front of the album. Labelled on spine: 'S.B. Centenary 1935 Reviews of subsequent Books, etc.'.

Pencil drawing, mounted and framed (21 x 26 cm). Labelled by Henry Festing Jones: 'The sketch taken on the spot for the illustration in Alps & Sanctuaries.' [See 'Alps and Sanctuaries' (1882), p.210.]

Black and white print reproduction on card (33.5 x 42 cm) of Charles Gogin's 1903 oil portrait of Henry Festing Jones. Reproduction by Henry Dixon & Son, London. Inscribed on verso by A.T. Bartholomew: 'This is a photograph of Charles Gogin's extremely bad painting of H.F.J. The picture itself is now Dr Dudley Cannalt-Jones's property.' [Duplicate at I/Folio1/17.]

Pen and ink sketch, mounted (22 x 19 cm), showing a town on a lakeshore with mountains in the background.

Two pencil and watercolour drawings on paper, mounted together (40.5 x 56 cm). Drawings by 'natural artists', intended by Butler to illustrate 'Alps and Sanctuaries' but ultimately not reproduced in that work. Not dated.

Pencil on paper, mounted (56 x 40.5 cm). Unfinished drawing.

Three copies: one hardbound, containing the bookplates of Henry Festing Jones and A.T. Bartholomew, inscribed on the cover page by Henry Festing Jones, and annotated by him; two paperback copies, one containing the bookplate of A.T. Bartholomew and inscribed to him from Henry Festing Jones, 27 December 1921.

Manuscript music consisting of selections from 'Narcissus' by Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones, copied out by them. Ten parts, for string instruments, separately bound in paper covers.

Includes the unpublished typescripts of four plays by Beaton, and three wartime notebooks. Between 1940 and 1945, Beaton was comissioned by the British Ministry of Information to document the Second World War at home and abroad. Beaton's wartime work comprises seven thousand photographs, which are now held by the Imperial War Museum. In addition to photographing London during the Blitz, Beaton travelled through North Africa, Iraq, Palestine, Transjordan and Syria. He left for India in 1943, and visited China in 1944.