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 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.
Part of Augustus John Papers
Fifty-six letters, 1903-1969, to Dorelia McNeill from various correspondents including Boris Anrep (2) 1914-1920s, Dora Carrington (15) 1926-1931, Tommy Earp (7) 1929-1948, Gwen John (4) [1904-1905], Ida John (7) ?1904-1905, Dame Laura Knight (1) 1969, John Sampson (1, photocopy) 1903, Lytton Strachey (4) 1913-1931, and Dora Yates (1, photocopy) 1962.