Item 76 - Sketchbook

1 sketchbook with 22 leaves of charcoal drawing paper (only 14 sides used); six sheets of loose paper. Sketches in graphite and coloured crayon.

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).

Note on inside cover: 'R.C.T. sketches - c. 1937'; however this seems to be in the same hand as the numbering of the item, and the sketches may well be by different people [Julian Trevelyan is an obvious candidate for the more skilled ones].