| Description | Blue "Challenge" duplicate notebook containing a [partial?] draft or drafts of DRAWN FROM LIFE; memoir material dealing with his childhood; (including a [partial?] draft of "The Not-So-Gay Nineties"); his World War I service (including a [partial?] draft of "The Tale of the Bob-Tailed Sheepdog"); experiences as a member of PUNCH's editorial staff (including reminiscences of A.A. Milne); reminiscences of Graham Shepard; a story about his dog, Blister; a fragment of a [children's story?]; draft material for BEN AND BROCK; discussions of his illustrating career; a short story about his selling an Elizabethan shilling as a child (including a typescript inserted into the volume; and memoirs of his later life in Sussex, including notes or drafts on his trip to Greece. There are also illustration lists for GOLDEN SOVEREIGN, VICTORIA REGINA, and GRACIOUS MAJESTY, word counts, chapter and illustration lists for DRAWN FROM LIFE, sketches in black biro for "The Elizabethan Shilling", and a sketch in black biro of Winnie-the-Pooh, Christopher Robin, and Piglet [possibly a first draft for a book jacket]. |