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At the rear of the volume, lists of Christmas correspondence, investments, books lent and books read.

Typed 'Exercise for the Chancellor's English medal' by 'Ecladon Scient', Jan. 1937; typed 'The death of Nelson' by 'Ecladon scient' for the Brown prize for an English poem, [c.1937]; loose sheets of draft, signed fair copy manuscript and typescript poetry by Geoffrey Woolley, 1939-1944. Also a letter of rejection from the Times, including 'the general opinion is that they are really too personal for publication in a daily newspaper', Aug. 1941.

Volume entitled 'Poems in "the duration" mood', containing dated transcripts of poems.

Volume marked 'L.V.T. 1936' [=Long Vacation Term], containing dated transcripts of poems.

Volume marked 'Mich. Term 1936', containing dated transcripts of poems.

Volume marked 'Jan. Term 1937', containing dated transcripts of poems.

Volume marked 'May Term 1937 & Mich. 1937', containing dated transcripts of poems.

Volume marked 'May Term 1936', containing dated transcripts of poems.

Volume marked '1935/1, 2, 3, 1936/1' [i.e, university terms], containing dated transcripts of poems, Jan. 1935-Feb. 1936, and loose-leaf drafts, Jan.-March 1936.

Volume entitled 'Reading list', containing annual lists of books read by Geoffrey Woolley.

Original bundle of letters from Robert Paul Eckert, usually from Freeport, Illinois, USA, to Geoffrey Woolley, 3 Aug. 1941-15 Sept. 1966; letters from Olga Eckert, his wife, 30 Oct. 1966-16 Feb. 1996, including with news of Robert's death; and photocopies of letters from Eckert to Roger Ingpen, 1934, and John Gawsworth, 1935-1937. Eckert was the author of Edward Thomas: A Biography and a Bibliography (Dent, 1937).

School, college and university letters, reports, ephemera and publications, including copies of 'The Breanian', the termly magazine of Brean House school, Weston-super-Mare, vol. 1, no. 1 (March 1926) and vol. 2, no. 2 (Dec. 1927), and 'The Cliftonian : a magazine edited by members of Clifton College', vol. 33, no's 1 and 4 (June and Dec 1933) [some with contributions by Woolley]; the rules of the Hawks' Club, Cambridge, 1933; three CUAC [Cambridge University Athletics Club] sports fixture cards, June-Nov. 1937; and a printed letter from the chairman of Clifton College reporting on the evacuation of the school to Bude and Wrington after the bombing raids on Bristol, April 1941.

Including copies of 'On target : an unofficial magazine produced by members of 303 Battery 99th (London Welsh) H.A.A. Regiment, Royal Artillery', vol. 1, no's 1-2, All Fool's Day-May 1940 (Woolley perhaps contributing as 'G.D.'); three loose pages from a subsequent number or similar publication, with a story by Woolley (in English), 'Er cof anwyl am Gymry Llundain'; 'Popular guide to the German army, no. 1, the armoured division (War Office, Feb. 1941); programmes for National Gallery lunch-time concerts and Royal Albert Hall promenade concerts, Aug. 1941; menu card for the 75th Anti-Tank Reg't, RA, first anniversary dinner, Thirsk, with nine signatures, Nov. 1941; concert programme of the orchestra of the 29th Armoured Brigade, Whitby warship week, Feb. [1942?]; 'Album-souvenir du débarquement, 1re partie', containing official D-day and liberation pictures, 1944; Second Army order of thanksgiving service on conclusion of the campaign in north west Europe, May 1945; Christmas card of the 75th A/TK Reg't, RA, with a map of their advance from Roermond in the Netherlands, Christmas 1944, to Eckernforde, Schleswig-Holstein, May 1945.

Typescript (top copy) of 'Strange brooch : a novel' by Geoffrey Woolley. Dedicated 'to my parents, Eustace Hope, and the late Edward Thomas'. Edward Thomas died in April 1917; Woolley's father appears to have died in late 1969/early 1970.

Typescript (carbon copy) of an extended version of 'Strange brooch : a novel'. Signed and dated by Geoffrey Woolley, 1 March 1939.

Synopsis of contents, date and word count of the chapters of 'Strange brooch'.

Original bundle of letters to and from W. H. Davies, 23 July 1908-12 Oct. 1928, including from Arthur C. Fifield of London, publisher, July 1908-March 1909; letter from R. Hamilton Edwards re. the sale of the serial rights of 'The autobiography of a super-tramp' to the 'Penny Pictorial', July 1909, forwarded by Davies to [C. F.] Cazenove, his agent, Aug. 1909; from Alston Rivers of London, publishers of 'The soul's destroyer', Aug. 1910-Dec. 1915; and a letter to Coulson Kernahan with a signed print of Davies, Oct. 1928. Also signed, corrected typescript copies of four poems, probably for publication in the Mercury: 'The two stars', 'The doll', 'Timepieces' and 'Secrets', undated.