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'September 17th 1927. My "Giro" with Clive. Copied word for word from my private diary of this date'.

With original letter from Ralph Wright to Bertha Penrose, given the date 'Autumn 1927' and with the heading 'Letter to be read with my account of the "giro" with Clive'

Manuscript of Bertha Wright's autobiography 'Bad Aunt Bertha, or, A Puritan's Progress', with photocopies and typescript copies. Loose photographs of Bertha Wright. Letters from her father Philip Baker to her stepmother Lillie Dell. Also present is a photocopy of Ralph Wright's journal, Apr. 1947-May 1951.

Still lifes, including fruit, books, flowers; sketch of landscape [perhaps from the garden of the Shiffolds]; portraits.

Some sketches are on the back of three loose pages headed 'Fascism in Practice - Proposed Exhibition', outlining plans for the transfer of an exhibition due to open in Paris in February to London and perhaps Bristol, Manchester and other cities. The exhibition is to be divided between a historical section on the rise of fascism and one on "Fascism the Enemy of Culture". Gives names of the 'executive committee' (Chairman: Professor P.M. S. Blackett: Treasurer: Lord Ivor Churchill; Secretary: Ralph Wright; other members such Wickham Steed, Princess Antoine Bibesco; Robert Boothby MP, Amabel Williams-Ellis) and 'general committee' (including Harold Laski, Kingsley Martin, George Lansbury, Storm Jameson and Virginia Woolf).