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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).

Thinks that Eddie is on the committee of the [Contemporary Art Society]; [Augustus] Daniel tells him there is a meeting on 14 December. The question of giving some money towards the purchase of Betty Muntz's group of a woman and child is likely to be raise: [Jim] Ede has seen it, and possibly also Ivor [Spencer-] Churchill; if Eddie wants to see it too before the meeting, Miss Muntz will be away between 7-11 December so there is not much time; gives her address and phone number. Expects her friends will be able to raise a sum to help get it cast and bought, but a 'contribution from the Society would make all the difference'. Though does not think his own opinion is of much value, he thinks it 'far the best thing she has done''; [Frank?] Dobson also seems to think highly of it.