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The file comprises photocopies of letters from Augustus John to Hope and Edgar Scott, 1930-[1952]. The file also includes photocopies of letters from Caspar John, 1961-1962, and from Poppet Pol, 1938, to Hope Scott; extracts from newspapers relating to Augustus John's portrait of Hope Scott and notes from Hope Scott's scrapbook, 1930-1938.

The file comprises photocopies of letters to his friend Charles Slade, 1909-[1917], and of letters, 1954, from Gerald Kelly, President of the Royal Academy of Arts to Charles Slade; and letters to Vera Stubbs, [?1929]-[1955], from Augustus John and one from 'Vyvyen' [Vivien White].

The file comprises photocopies of letters, [1946]-[1959], including Augustus John's tribute to Lady Matthew Smith [née Gwen Salmond], January 1958, together with photocopies of letters, [1941]-[1958], from Vivien White to Sir Matthew Smith and a letter from 'Dodo', [1941x1961].

The file comprises photocopies of letters, [1958]-1961.

The file includes photocopies of letters from Augustus John to [Cyril] Clemens, 1947-1955; 'Horatio' [Horace de Vere Cole], 1927; and [Aleister] Crowley, [1912].

The file comprises photocopies of letters from Augustus John to Daniel George, 1950-1961; Elmer [Gertz], 1932; Oliver Gogarty, 1918-1947; Conger Goodyear, [1923]; William Robert Gregory, [?1907]; Pamela Grove, 1941-[1953]; and Ned [Grove], [1941x1953].

The file includes photocopies of letters from Augustus John to Philip Heseltine, 1920-1929; a transcript, 1972, of a letter, 1923, from the artist to Thomas Hardy, from the Thomas Hardy Memorial Collection, thanking the latter for sitting for him and stating that his portrait had been purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum; Mary [Keene], [1945]-[1948]; and Dame Laura Knight, 1938, together with a press cutting from The Evening Standard, 1968, containing a profile of her.

The file includes photocopies of letters, 1937-1938, from Augustus John to [Sir John] Lavery; letters, 1920, relating to Augustus John's portrait of Lord Leverhulme, 1920, with a letter, 1970, from the Honorary Director of Beaverbrook Library; J. B. Manson, [1912]-[1940]; [General Bernard] Montgomery, 1938; Grant Murray, 1948; Arnold Palmer, 1930-[1959]; Hugo [Pitman], 1952-1953, and transcripts of letters, 1954 and [?1956], to Reine Pitman; Will[iam] [Rothenstein], [1911]-[1935], with transcripts of letters, [?1900]-[1913], and of two letters from Dorelia [John] to Alice [Rothenstein], [1914x1927]; [John Sampson, 1914-1915]; Frances Stevenson, 1919-1920, and extracts from letters, [1919], in NLW MS 21570E, concerning Augustus John's commission to paint the Paris Peace Conference in 1919; [Frida Strindberg], [?1911]; Winifred Coombe Tennant, 1950, with a photocopy of a letter from her; [Henry] Tonks, 1918; Sir Emery Walker, [1916]; and Maynard Walker, 1945. Also included are a few letters to some unidentified recipients.

The file comprises photocopies of letters, [1917]-[1955], from Augustus John to Lady Cynthia Asquith.

The file comprises photocopies of correspondence, [1940]-[1956], relating mainly to the preparation of her foreword as editor of the publication Augustus John drawings (London, 1941), and to books sold, payments and royalties.

The file comprises photocopies of transcripts of letters from Augustus John to Thelma Cazalet, 1934-1959, and to Maud ('Molly') Cazalet, 1939-1951.

The series comprises extracts from letters mainly from Augustus John relating to his writings, arrangements for portraits and exhibitions, with personal and family news; photocopies from John Quinn's diary, 1911, and his diaries, 1917-1923; together with articles about the artist and papers relating to his exhibitions held in Britain and America.

The file includes notes from letters written to Christabel Aberconway, 1924-1959, held at the British Library (Add. MS 52556); letter to Boris Anrep, 1928; Cecil Beaton, [1940]-[1961]; Dorothy Brett (Dorothy Brett Papers at the University of Cincinnati); [Marchesa] Casati, 1941, and biographical notes about his sitter from printed sources, 1972-1973; Queen Elizabeth, 1939-1941; James Hanley, [1958]-1960; and Dame Laura Knight, [1961].

The file comprises photocopies from the diary of John Quinn, 1911, a New York lawyer and patron of the arts, with references to Augustus John, and notes taken from his diaries, 1917-1923, and from his various correspondents, including [Jacob] Epstein, Iris Tree and W. B. Yeats, 1908-1923, together with a photocopy of a letter, 1911, from the artist to John Quinn.

The file includes notes from letters written to Henry Lamb, [1912]-[1914], T. E. Lawrence, 1919-[1935], [D. S. ] MacColl, [1900]-[1945] (originals held at the Special Collections Library, Glasgow), Hugh and Michaela Pooley, 1914-[1917], Anthony Powell, 1928-1960, John Cowper Powys, 1955-1958, Michel Salaman, [1911]-[1955], Bernard Shaw, 1943-1944, and photocopies of typescript letters, 1944-1945, from Bernard Shaw, Theodore Spencer, 1929-1934, Lytton Strachey, 1913-1928, Sir Charles Tennyson and Lady Tennyson, 1944-1959, with background notes by him, and Dudley Tooth, 1928-1961.

The file comprises photocopies and mainly transcripts of extracts from letters referring to Augustus John, including [W. B.] Yeats to Lady Gregory and others, 1907-1935; H[elen] M[aitland] to [Henry Lamb], 1920; Christopher (Kit) Wood to his mother, 1921-1926; Horace de Vere Cole to [J. B.] Manson, 1926; W[illiam] R[othenstein] to Flora Russell, 1935-1944, and to Wyndham Lewis, 1927-[1942]; Dylan Thomas to Frances Hughes, 1939; [Jack] Knewstub to his family, [1940]-[1949]; correspondence between William de Belleroche and Frank Brangwyn, 1943-1950; John Cowper Powys to Louis Wilkinson, 1955-1956; Vivien White to Vera Stubbs, 1959, together with a photocopy of a letter from Bertrand Russell to Lady Melchett, 1964, relating to Augustus John's memorial and extracts from the D'Abernon Papers at the British Library relating to Augustus John's portrait of the Lord.

The file comprises notes taken from the papers of [Gerald] Kelly held at the Royal Academy of Arts mainly relating to Augustus John's retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1954; a press release (original) from the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1954, relating to an exhibition 'Augustus John in Liverpool' held there; a press release from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, advertising the Augustus John Centenary exhibition in 1978; information sheet for an exhibition held at the Manchester City Art Gallery in [1985x1986]; a press release advertising a one week only exhibition of Augustus John's cartoon 'The Mumpers' at the Mercury Gallery, London, in [1994]; a press release from the Barbican Art Gallery advertising the 'Modern Art in Britain 1910-1914' exhibition held in 1997 featuring landscapes by Augustus John; photocopy of an exhibition of Augustus John drawings lent by Anson C. Goodyear at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, New York, 1926; notes about the National Gallery and Augustus John's exhibition held in 1940; and a transcript of a press cutting, 1907, from The Saturday Review (which was in the possession of Winifred Shute [sister of Augustus John]) relating to an exhibition at the Carfax Gallery, London. -- The file includes photocopies of the correspondence, 1954, of John Freemantle (Lord Cottesloe) relating to an exhibition held at the Diploma Gallery, Royal Academy, and the confusion about the painting of Miss Spencer Edwards. Also included are notes taken from the appointment diaries of Augustus John, [1921] and 1923 (NLW MSS 23853-23854A).

The file comprises descriptions of paintings and etchings by Augustus John held at various galleries, including Birmingham City Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, the Walker Gallery, Liverpool, Leeds Art Gallery, the Tate Gallery, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Manchester City Gallery and Whitworth Gallery, together with a short list of representations of the artist by other painters. Included are photocopies of letters, 1926, relating to the portrait of Dr Gustav Stresemann by Augustus John which was purchased by the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, USA, and a letter, 1938, from the National Art-Collections Fund to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society, New Zeland, relating to the purchase of a girl's portrait. -- Also included are examples of book covers of novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner published in 1978 which featured 'The red feather' and 'French fisher-boy', paintings by Augustus John.

The file comprises articles and other items, mostly photocopies, including Th. Bolton, 'Augustus John - The Painter', Pearson's Magazine, 1919; 'Some of Augustus John's drawings now on exhibition in the National Gallery, London', Picture Post, March 1941; Alan Andrews, 'Augustus John', Picture Post, March 1954; 'Augustus John a great artist but a difficult sitter' by Allan Chappelow, The Photographic Journal, July 1962; 'The Boy David: Augustus John and Ernst Stern' by Michael Easton, Apollo, 1965; minutes of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 1938-1954 (Augustus John was its president, 1948-1952); articles, 1912, from various newspapers relating to the cartoon 'Mumpers' by Augustus John exhibited at the New English Art Club in London; 'The drawings of Augustus John' by Hugh Blaker, Colour magazine, 1916; and 'Augustus John in Dorset', Dorset Life, 1990; together with the programme of the Augustus John Memorial Concert held by the Royal Academy of Arts in 1966 and a booklet about Gumfreston Church [where the artist's father Edwin William John was buried].

The file comprises 'Augustus John. Artists, anarchist and gypsy' by Horace Shipp, Everybody's Weekly, March 1954; photocopies of galley proofs corrected by Augustus John of his review of Dora E. Yates's My gypsy days: recollections of a Romani Rawnie, [1953]; Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, containing tributes to Augustus John by Sacheverell Sitwell and Walter Starkie, 1962, and Dorelia John by Joseta Jones, 1970; photocopies of Juliette de Bairacli Levy's 'Augustus John in the New Forest', Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society and a draft of the article; 'Hungarian gypsies in Comberton Camp' by the same author; book reviews of Sven Berlin, Dromengro: Man of the road (London, 1971), with references to Augustus John, and an article by Ronald Blythe, The Listener, June 1972, relating to sites for gypsies.