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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.

Over one hundred and twenty letters, [c. 1904]-1961, to Augustus John from various correspondents (surnames L-Nettleship), including Henry Lamb (2) [?1907]-1935, T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia (8) 1920-1932, Percy Wyndham Lewis (18) [c. 1904]-1952, Ramsay McDonald (1) 1933, Dorelia McNeill (8) [1907]-[?1938], George Moore (2) 1927, Lady Ottoline Morrell (9) 1930-1937, and Cedric Morris (1) [1930s].

The file consists of correspondence and papers relating to the artist: Derwent Lees, Hendrik Lek, Mervyn Levi, B. A. Lewis, Edward Morland Lewis, Gomer Lewis, Wyndham Lewis and Ron Lowe, 1948, 1951, 1962-1988, 1993-1997.

The file comprises photocopies of letters written to Augustus John. The correspondents include John Samp[son], 1910, Frida Strindberg, [?1911], [?1914]; Wyndham Lewis, 1928; James Joyce, [1933]; Dora Yates, 1947; Holt Beever & Kinsey, Solicitors, London, 1950, declaring that The Rt Hon. Katharine Viscountess Tredegar had left him a Bronze Angel by Franc Krisnic in her will; and Ulick O'Connnor, 1958, together with a translation of a letter written in French by Albert Schweitzer, [1955], to the artist, and a covenant, 1927, signed by Horace de Vere Cole and Augustus John to drink no rum, whisky, gin or vodka.

Eighty-seven letters, 1907-1961, from Augustus John to various correspondents, including fifty-one to Admiral Sir Caspar John, 1950-[1961], seven to T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia [1919-1935], and one to Percy Wyndham Lewis, 1930.