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Brown hardback notebook. Includes entries concerning life at 3 Hyde Park Street and Beaton's relations with his family.

Photographs of Mrs E. W. Beaton, Cecil Beaton's mother, for 'The Gentlewoman'. P.133.

Brown hardback notebook. Includes entries concerning life at 3 Hyde Park Street and Beaton's relations with his family.

Is afraid Beaton will be depressed getting to Cambridge in this foul weather with an exam and a cold. Believes he will be happy once he has found some nice people. Wishes he was at Oxford and not Cambridge. Thanks Beaton for his letters and bits of clothing. Hopes his exam was alright. Invites him to come and stay with him at Oxford for as long as he wants. Gives him news of his friends and family. Asks Beaton to write to him. Tells him he will send his things to 3 Hyde Park St.

Brown hardback notebook. Includes entries concerning life at 3 Hyde Park Street and Beaton's relations with his family.

Hardback notebook; in which Beaton begins working at his father's office in London.

Hardback notebook. Includes material concerning life at 3 Hyde Park Street and Beaton's relations with his family.

Tells Beaton that he thinks the financial year runs from April 1st to March 31st. Encloses calculations of how much Beaton has earned and informs him that he need not pay much income tax. Tells him to include entertaining expenses. Informs Beaton that he seems in need of a rest, and tells him to give up photography and spend three weeks in the Italian lakes "with someone with whom you are not in love". Will send 12 films, hoping they are for Beaton's own use or else Leng shall be "imprisoned".

Apologises to Beaton for the paper being single weight. Asks if it would be possible for him to use some of it. Meanwhile he will send some more double weight. Is disappointed that Beaton is going to Holland this weekend as he thought he was coming down this Sunday.

Typescript letter to the painter Edward 'Boy' Le Bas (1904-1966), in which Beaton thanks Le Bas for his encouraging letter. This is his last week in Holborn before his holiday. He is looking forward to finishing his work in the office and to escaping his family for a short while to go to Paris and Venice with a 'nice woman' [most likely to be a reference to the British fashion journalist, Alison Settle (1891-1980)]. Asks le Bas if he can borrow some money from him and promises to re-pay it slowly.