[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.]
[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.
Kept by Joseph Lee, containing mainly literary extracts including a number of poems, some of which may be unpublished.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.
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.]
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. Identified in photograph (7) are Frank Coutts as the jester, third from the right in the front row. Above him to the left is Ruby Scott as the nun, and above Ruby and to the left is Agnes Nicol. To the left of Agnes is Meta Mitchell.
Manuscript by Joseph Lee about his reasons for the literary quarrel with Robert Bridges, with excerpts from the correspondence between the two men, and an account of their meeting in Oxford.
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.]
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]
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]
Martin Harvey, Dundee, to the Editor, the Dundee Advertiser. Gives thanks for the positive interest shown by the journal in 'our' performances that week at Her Majesty's Theatre, Dundee. [1p]
