| Description | Draft memoir written in the style of a diary. Discusses: his trip to Ireland in 1948; Shepard's purchase of his dog Blister; E.V. Knox's retirement as editor of PUNCH and Kenneth Bird [Fougasse]'s assumption of it; trips to Cornwall, Normandy, and the Mediterranean; the death of Neil Gossage; his work on MR. PUNCH'S COUNTY SONGS; trips to Yorkshire and Italy; the memorial service at Marlborough College for former students [including Graham Shepard] killed in World War II; and the deaths of King George VI and Queen Mary |