Given by Joseph Lee on Saturday 13 November 1948. The talk concerned Lee's reminiscences of previous encounters with famous figures, mainly from the literary world. Those mentioned include: J.M. Barrie, Max Beerbohm, Robert Bridges, Jean Armour Burns Brown, Cecil Chesterton, G.K. Chesterton, W.H. Davies, Martin Harvey, Wilfred Meynell, George Moore, Ellen and Fred Terry, and Hugh Walpole. He also mentions the Thomson-Bywaters murder trial and the Russell Paternity Case.
The cover appears to have been hand made, and inside there is an inscription by Graves, "Joseph Lee from Robert Graves 1921 in gratitude for 'The Green Grass'". London, Chiswick Press.
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.
[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]
[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.]