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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

A War Prisoner's Journal: II Karlsruhe

Includes photographs, sketches, programmes for camp concerts. Also a one-act play, 'A Chelsea Christmas Eve: A Nocturne in A Flat' by Joseph Lee. [Performed at Karlsruhe Camp on 1 January 1918.] [360pp]

A Journal of Captivity'.

Bound manuscript of Lee's writings while a prisoner of war. [A longer version of A Captive at Carlsruhe and written in the form of a diary unlike the published book. Contains spaces marked for illustrations.]

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.

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.

Sketch book

Book belonging to Lee containing sketches and notes including sketches made when travelling the world

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.

Photograph album with some loose copies of photographs of Fra Lippo Lippi

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.

Joseph Johnston Lee

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.

Typed letter

Martin Harvey, Theatre Royal, Brighton, to Joseph Lee, c/o Dundee. Comments on Lee's captivity and includes dates of his tour of Britain during 1918. Gives other information about family and friends and gives positive response to possibility of Lee writing a book about his experiences as a P.O.W. [2pp]

Statement of accounts

"Statement of Mr Murray's practice in making up accounts to authors for works on which a royalty is paid to the author", Ballads of Battle.

Letters

Joseph Lee to his niece, Christina Blair Blackwood. Includes sketches. Original and photocopy.

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.]
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