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A Journalist's Journal'.

[402pp] The main part of the journal covers the dates, 4 February 1939 - 17 March 1940, with entries, 23 July 1945 - 27 August 1945. [Continued from MS 85/2/7]

Journals kept by Lee post World War 1 in London and Dundee

Kept by Joseph Lee while sub-editor on the News Chronicle and after his retiral in September 1944 and return to Dundee. [More detailed lists of the contents of each journal are also available for consultation.] Includes drawings, concert programmes, cuttings etc. 1926-1948. Mainly 1939-1946.

Journal

[110pp] Includes sketches of Edith Sitwell [p.87].

Journal

[388pp] Includes sketches of Oda Slobodskaya and Eileen Rafth [p.283]; Lee and his wife [p.123, p.330]; Ruth Naylor [p.326]; Gabrielle Bernard [p.363]. Also includes: [p.380a] Letter, 9 November 1941, Lionel Tertis to Joseph Lee. Thanks Lee for letter and cheque. Refers to Mrs Lee's viola playing.

Journal

[487pp] Also includes literary extracts started on 8 March 1901. [pp.1-58, 401-422]. There are some comments about the Nuremberg Sentences on p.341. Includes; Sketches of John Barbirolli [p.195]; photographs of Nancy Lee Scrymegeour [p.124]; Joseph Lee in battledress [p.487a.] 5 October 1945 - 20 November 1946; 23 March 1947 - 29 March 1947; 7 April 1948 - 20 August 1948.

Journal

[193pp] Includes sketches of Slobodskaya [p.11], Turgenev [p.111a]. Also includes: [p.9a] Legal document in connection with the will of Josiah Lee Bradford. [Copy typescript] n.d. [p.25a] Letter, 27 October 1944, F.B. Smart, Secretary, The Daily News Ltd, to Joseph Lee. Concerns the granting of a pension to Lee. [p.43] Letter, postmarked 4 January 1945, redirected from Surrey to Dundee. David Lee. Sends good wishes to Joseph [his brother] and to his wife. [Presumably last letter before David's death.] [p.45a] Card acknowledging expression of sympathy from Katie and Frances Steggall, Dundee. [Printed] n.d. [January 1945.] [p.103a] Letter, 28 March 1945, T.W. Parsons, Major, to Joseph Lee. Concerns enclosure of Good Service Certificate for Home Guard duties in "B" Company. [p.109a] Letter, 4 March 1945, Ernest Fred Manfred, New York to Joseph Lee. Request autograph. [Note in Lee's writing at foot of letter, wondering whether this could be an attempt at fraud.]

Journal

[355pp] Includes sketches of Stanley Spencer [p.2a]; Sabine Kalter [p.125]; Adela Verne [p.340]; Dr Harold Darke [p.355].

Journal

Includes a number of comments about bombings, especially in July 1944. [354pp] Includes sketches of Noel Mewton-Wood [p.54]; Lionel Tertis [p.59]; Kendall Taylor [p.89a]; Benjamin Frankel [p.129]. Also includes: [p.161a] Curriculum vitae of Ivan Pederson. n.d. [January 1944]. [Typescript] [p.225] Caricature of Jean Gabin drawn by R. Warrington. [March 1944.] [p.231a] Letter, 6 April 1944, Thomas W. Parsons, Major, Company Headquarters, London, to Joseph Lee concerning Lee's resignation from the Home Guard. [Copy typescript] [p.239a] Letter, 14 April 1944, Robert Sinclair to Joe Lee. Concerns Lee's Home Guard service. [Typescript on headed paper] [p.253a] Poem, 'Queue-Fever', Joseph Lee, 10 May 1944. [Typescript] [p.267] Letter, 13 May 1944, Ron[ald] Steel Barrie to Mr and Mrs Joseph Lee thanking them for their hospitality on a week-end visit.

Book of pencil sketches

Pencil sketches of nude figures drawn by Joseph Lee [presumably when he attended classes at the Slade School of Art, London, c.1920]. Includes two unrelated drawings: pen and ink drawing on card of 'Wallace Knocking Stone, Longforgan'; 'The Auld Bear-Stane', signed 'J.L.' n.d., and pen and ink drawing of part of an unidentified ruined building, unsigned. [These and two loose Slade sketches are contained in an envelope at back of book.]

Commonplace book

Kept by Joseph Lee, containing mainly literary extracts including a number of poems, some of which may be unpublished. A few pages are in Pitman's shorthand. Includes cuttings and miscellanea. 1898-c.1940s. [324pp] Also includes: Extracts from letters from John Ruskin to the late William Hackston, sent to Joseph Lee for sale on behalf of the artists widow, 5 July 1928 [pp.175-179, 182-183, 186-189, 192-195]. Collection includes one letter from D.G. Rossetti [pp.180-181]. Copy of letter, dated 27 December 1547, Thomas Wyndam to Somerset.

Fra Lippo Lippi

[See also MS 88/7/2.] (1-16) Photograph album/scrapbook relating to a performance of "Fra Lippo Lippi, Painter of Florence". The play was written by Joseph Lee and performed by students of the Dundee Technical College and School of Art on 29 April 1914. Includes photographs of scenes from the play, sketches, souvenir programme, press cuttings and chronological notes. Joseph Lee in Black Watch uniform. c.1915 [With negative]. Joseph Lee holding an open book. n.d. [Probably 1940s.] (17) Loose photograph of Lee in Fra Lippo Lippi.

Letter

Robert Bridges, Oxford, to Joseph Lee, writes that he liked Lee's poem, and expands on his view of Burns. [3pp] [Previously attached to MS 88/5/4.]

Letter

Robert Bridges, Oxford, to Joseph Lee. Writes that he has been misrepresented in Lee's retort "for I cannot believe you admire Burns more than I do". [1p] [Previously attached to MS88/5/4, with typescript copy of letter.]

Letter

Joseph Lee, Dundee, to Robert Bridges, Oxford. Admits authorship of the verses in the Dundee Advertiser, but denies sending Bridges a copy of the paper. Continues that he does not feel he misrepresented Bridges and comments on views on Burns expressed by R.C. Stevenson and Thomas Carlyle. [3pp] [2 copies]

Letter

J.D. Cannon, District Superintendent of Colonisation, Toronto, Ontario, to Joseph Lee. Concerns permission to read the poem to the St Louis, Missouri Burns Club. [3pp]

Letter

[Letter dated 1935], Joseph Lee to J.D. Cannon, replying to MS88/5/11. [6pp]
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