Letter (typescript, 28 February, 1944) to Tambimuttu, noting correction to attached poem ('Mostly About Violet'). Postcard (15 March, 1946) requesting copy of Poetry London, 2:10 (1944), in which the poem appeared (pp. 13-14).
Correspondence between Capt Beard and Tambimuttu (five brief letters) concerning submission of poems (rejected) and an article ('A Consideration of Verse'), the latter to be quoted 'in my editorial for the Services number of PL'.
Three poems (typescript): 'After France'; 'The Rats' Testament' (extract); and 'Poem' ('There are only two or three…'), published Poetry London, 2:8 (1942), pp. 67-68.
Correspondence covering various topics, professional and personal: Tambimuttu's (unspecified) illness, recovery and new frame of mind, Berlin's commmision from Tambimuttu to write a book on artists in Cornwall, Berlin's dustjacket design, and other incidental matters. Berlin to Tambimuttu (20 Oc...
Letter (in French, 22 November, 1945) from Biermez proposing a monograph on James Ensor. Reply (18 January, 1946) from Michael Swan, requesting sight of the manuscript.
Correspondence concerning 'colour blocks' of paintings by Jankel Adler: Bilbo (The Modern Art Gallery Ltd, London) to Nicholson & Watson (11 March, 1946); Michael Swan to Bilbo (13 March, 1946); Bilbo to Swan (14 March, 1946); Swan to Bilbo (15 March, 1946).