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Joseph Johnston Lee

Joseph Johnston Lee

  • MS 88
  • Collection
  • 1898-2007
Journals kept by Joseph Lee while a prisoner of war in Germany 1916-1918 and in later years when a journalist in London, which include sketches, photographs and miscellanea; also includes sketches of figures drawn by Lee at the Slade School of Art 1898-1948; local magazines edited by Lee 1907-1913; miscellaneous papers and correspondence relating to poetry, including correspondence with Robert Bridges 1914-1948; correspondence relating to his period of captivity in Karlsruhe Prisoner-of-War camp 1917-1918; miscellaneous correspondence 1913-1919; photographs 1914-1948; miscellaneous Material. c 1914 - 2007.

Joseph Johnston Lee

Joseph Lee

Behind the firing line sketching a little French lady who is a great friend of his'. [Printed in an unidentified Dundee newspaper, from the caption to which this information was taken.] [See also MS 88/1/1 p.2.]

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

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

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.

Journal Volume II.'

[356pp] Includes pencil sketches of Harry Isaacs, [p.144] Dr D.M. Evans and Sybil Eaton [p.248]. 1 August - 6 September 1940; 21 November 1941 [continued from MS 88/2/4] - 31 July 1942.

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.

Journals kept while prisoner of war in German camps

Kept by Joseph Lee while a prisoner of war in German camps at Karlsruhe and Beeskow. [More detailed lists of the contents of each journal are also available for consultation.] They include sketches, photographs and other memorabilia. Also the bound manuscript of Lee's book, A Captive at Carlsruhe, and a copy of the published work. [1917-1920]

Laser copy of a pen and ink drawing

With caption "IN THE MARIENKIRCHE BEESKOW. SUNDAY 17 NOV. 1918", signed "Joseph Lee". [Reproduced in A Captive at Carlsruhe facing p.177 with the caption "Service for the dead". However, the 'Service for the Dead' was actually held on 24 November 1918.] [See also MS 88/1/3 p.184.]

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

John Murray, London, to Joseph Lee, Dundee. Concerns publication and sale of Ballads of Battle and Work-a-Day Warriors. Also gives some personal news and greetings.

Letter

Letter from Kathleen Blackwood to Caroline Brown, Deputy Archivist University of Dundee reguarding deposit of MS 88/15/1-5.

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

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

John Murray, London, to Joseph Lee, Dundee. Gives some personal news and greetings.

Letter

Fred Terry, Bradford, to Joseph Lee. Has read Lee's Ballads of Battle and comments on the various poems. Includes a tirade against the Germans. [4pp]

Letter

Fred Terry, London, to Joseph Lee, Karlsruhe Prisoner-of-War Camp. Mentions a meeting with Lee's sister and gives news about the portion of his "spring Tour" in Scotland. [2pp]

Letter

George Herbert Clarke, Professor of English, University of Tennessee, to Joseph Lee, c/o Dundee. Informs Lee that Houghton Mifflin Company are preparing a second series of 'A Treasury of War Poetry', and asks if Lee would like to contribute to this volume, since he had contributed to the first. [1p]

Letter

Joseph Lee, Karlsruhe Prisoner-of-War Camp, to Herman Lee [Joseph Lee's brother], Dundee. One month after his imprisonment describes life in the camp, and includes various requests for items to be sent. [6pp]
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