A small bespoke album sewn with green ribbon, with a front cover design drawn by Benson showing two figures holding cameras. The album contains 17 adhered photographs (some faded) from a ski-ing holiday. Date not indicated.
Articles by Benson in the form of newspaper cuttings, or in typescript, listed alphabetically by location. The Bahamas: Benson, Come to Eleuthera or New Lands for Old (pamphlet, without date). Benson, 'Looking for Treasure' (typescript, 7 sheets). Benson, 'A Week in the Bahamas', The Star, 29 J...
Articles by Benson in the form of newspaper cuttings, or in typescript, listed alphabetically by location. London: Benson, 'The Ignoramus at Marble Arch' (typescript, 2 sheets). Benson, 'The Derby Ignoramus' (typescript, 4 sheets). Benson, 'Goodbye, London' (typescript, 6 sheets). Benson, 'The ...
Two sketchbooks: 'The Second Season Book of an Exiled Artist' (Arosa, 1911). A number of pages have been removed from this book. 'The Chernex Book of an Exiled Artist' (November 1911). Most pages of the sketchbook are blank.
Three items: A number of loose pages from an accounts book detailing Benson's newspaper and magazine publications, noting date, title of article or story, publication and amount received. For the period 1923-1933. Four imitation cheques (each dated 4 November 1933) from 'Aunt Stella' to John Ben...
In bound typescript, with autograph amendments throughout, and with six additional sheets inserted following p. 115. With Benson's signature to the front cover.
Other Photographs, including Memorial Plaque to Benson
Scope & Content:
Ten black and white photographs: six photographs of a colonial building and garden; three photographs of a memorial plaque to Stella Benson Anderson ('who loved this garden and her ponies and dogs and the birds in it'); an inscribed portrait of Mei han-fang: 'To Mrs O G Anderson' (26 May 1931).
Ten items: four portraits of Benson (photographic reproductions), one of which is by Wyndham Lewis; a pencil drawing on board (signed 'Orde') that appears to be of Benson; a photographic reproduction of a drawing of an unidentified male with glasses, initialled KH; a photographic reproduction of...