[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.]
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]
Lt Col. A.C. Sheepshanks, 10th K.R.R.C. to Herman Lee. Expresses sympathy over Joseph Lee having gone missing and describes the events during the battle which led to the occurrence. [1p]
Taken at the graveside, of a burial service. [For a French soldier buried just after Captain Henderson on 2 February 1918. The Catholic Priest at Karlsruhe performed the service.] Lee is standing a short way to the left of the priest. The photograph was taken by F. Albrecht, Karlsruhe. MISSING [See also MS 88/1/2 (1).]
The Spell of Peace' a hand written short story by Lee dedicated to 'all who have gone on leave; to all who are going; to all who have made my own particular spells of leave spells of leave so peculiarly pleasant and so memorable'
To Joan Auld, Archivist, Dundee University, from J.E.R. Macmillan, Archivist, Regimental Museum, concerning the obituary of Joseph Lee, and print-out detailing material held in the Regimental Museum. 18 May 1949 and 4 October 1989.