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Loose leaves of manuscript and typescript diary entries.

Loose leaves of a manuscript diary extracted from a ring binder (discarded), with the 75th Anti-Tank Regiment RA, part of 11th Armoured Division, 6 June-17 Sept. 1944, including notes on landing in Normandy (18 June), crossing the Belgian frontier (3 Sept.), and the start of Operation Garden (17 Sept.). Also the loose leaves of a narrative diary, 9 May-11 June, 15-16 Sept., 9 Oct.-20 Nov. 1944, 20 Jan.-10 Feb. 1945, found loose in the same ring binder.

Volume containing a narrative diary, 18 Sept.-20 Nov. 1945. Also contains further loose diary entries, 6 May-15 July 1945, covering the German surrender, probably comprising the pages torn out of the front of the volume.

Loose leaves of a mainly manuscript diary, with a gap, 13 April-23 Oct. 1946 inclusive.

Appointments diaries for 1965-1970.

Bundle of appointments diaries for 2001-2010. The entry for 17 Feb. 2010 includes "Geoffrey died 13.30 pm".

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

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

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.

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

Loose leaf binder containing lists of contents, recipients and receipts for CARE and other food parcels ordered in the USA by Geoffrey Woolley, April-Aug. 1948, a copy of Woolley's will, Nov. 1944, list of bequests, Aug. 1948, diary entries, copies of letters received and sent, accounts, and lists of names [?letters received and to be answered]. The diary entries include Pershing's lying-in-state, 18 July.

Invitations, concert programmes and other ephemera, mainly Washington, 1951-1952. Orders of remembrance services for Keith Downing Woolley (1912-1983) and Pamela Phyllis Watson (1923-1999). Also a list of names entitled 'Travellers, Oct 11/2000', with some names ticked and others crossed out; probably a Christmas card list.

Original bundle of letters from James Ashcroft Noble, usually of The Grove, Wandsworth, to Coulson Kernahan of Southend on Sea, 30 Jan. 1893-25 Dec. 1895. Also signed copies of poems: 'A lover in June', March 1894, 'To a sonneteer', May 1894. James Ashcroft Noble was the father of Helen Thomas, Edward Thomas's wife.

Typescript of a play in two acts entitled 'Elanda and Eclipse (To Geoffrey)'.

Original file of letters, including from Monnowdean, Monmouth, Jan.-Nov. 1938, Cathedral Road, Cardiff, Feb. 1939, and St Georges Square, London SW1, June-Sept. 1939, then Shirley Park, East Croydon, with the 99th (London Welsh) A.A. Regiment, Sept. 1939-May 1940, and Scarborough, co. York, with the 125th O.C.T.U., May 1940. The letters include the start of the Second World War, including signing up with Lloyd James the announcer, 1 Sept. 1939. Six letters in envelopes found loose have been added.

Letters, numbered 175-175a, 176-180, 190-193, 195-230, 223a, from Captain Geoffrey Woolley RA, initially from Headquarters, 11th Support Group, Home Forces, based somewhere near York (Jan.-May), later H.Q.R.A., 11th Armoured Division, Home Forces (May-Dec.). Includes 'A great Edward Thomas find that afternoon, - 45 letters of his, written to W. H. Hudson [William Henry Hudson, 1841-1922], the nature writer. Lucky I haven't got to use my Dress allowance on clothes!' (9 July).

Letters, numbered 231-232, 234-255, 255a, 256-264, from Geoffrey Woolley of 118 Battery, 75th Anti-Tank Regiment RA, apparently stationed at Grimston near Withernsea on the Holderness coast, co. York (see no. 231).

Letters, numbered 101-112, and two postcards from Geoffrey Woolley, postmarked Washington DC and New York, before embarking on the Britannic for Britain (14 March-31 May). Also a letter from Habana, Cuba (20 Dec.).

Original bundle of letters to Geoffrey Woolley from friends, relations and others, including from 2/Lt H. R. Picton-James RA of 1st Reg. RHA, May-Dec. 1941, and Picton-James's parents following his death, Aug. 1942; Jeffrey Morgan of Sarisbury, co. Hants, Sept. 1934; Woolley's grandmother and godmother of Caerleon, co. Mon., June 1923-June 1935; Kriegsgefangenenpost Postkarte (PoW postcards) from Lt Peter Fraser, Offizierlager VI B (later VII B), Jan. 1942-April 1943, and Major Rodney Gee, Offizierlager IX A/H, April-June 1944; Sylvia Fraser, Peter's mother, when he was missing presumed dead, June 1940; Nancy Gee, Rodney's [?wife], discussing books to send out, June 1941; Woolley's grandmother of Stroud, co. Glos, April [1941]-March [1942]; Betty Morgan of Oxford, wife of Denys Morgan (d. 7 Feb. 1943); Richard A. ('Silent Richard') Crossley-Holland, Jan. 1941-Feb. 1984; Geoff of Llandrindod, including May 1943, enclosing several letters to Geoff from various others, June 1941-Aug. 1947; John Boon of Mills & Boon, Sept. 1938-Sept. 1940; and John D. K. Marshall, Sept. 1939-Nov.1942. The letters include several replies to letters of condolence from Woolley. Also a letter from Jack Jones of Rhiwbina, discussing his 'The man David' and 'Me and mine', "my publisher thinks it is a better book than my 'Unfinished journey' and he is going to publish it as soon as paper supplies will enable him to", and the state of Welsh theatre, "moribund ... London's dead donkeys follow each other on to the stage", Oct. 1944. Also some other papers, including a report on the occupation of installations NE of Leese [Kampfstoffabrik Leese chemical manufacturing plant], April 1945. This file mostly comprises a bundle originally labelled 'Wartime letters', although it also included some dating to his school and university days.