The file comprises notes mainly from printed sources about the artist. These include Campbell Dodgson, A catalogue of etchings by Augustus John (London, 1920); 'Augustus John' by Frank Harris in his Contemporary portraits (New York, 1920); Wyndham Lewis, Rude assignment [1950]; Anthony Bertram, A century of British painting (London, 1951); Thelma Cazalet-Keir, From the wings: an autobiography (London, 1967); Frances Lloyd George, The years that are past (1967); John Symonds and Kenneth Grant (editors), The confessions of Aleister Crowley (London, 1969); and Oliver St John Gogarty, It isn't this time of year at all! (1983), together with typescript notes from an article 'Augustus John on art training' from The Daily Telegraph, an address by Lennox Robinson, 1955, during the presentation of a bust of W. B. Yeats made by Augustus John to the Abbey Theatre, [Dublin], with a list of subscribers and 'In praise of Augustus John' by Iris Tree, 1967, uncompleted and unpublished autobiography.