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Papers of the journalist Geoffrey Woolley, including a group of letters, 1906-1915, from the poet Edward Thomas to W. H. Hudson.

Letters from Dakyn's House, Clifton School, during term time.

Letters, unnumbered, from Major Geoffrey Woolley RA of Q Branch, HQ, 8 Corps District, B.A.O.R., all with army or field post office postmarks. In August he was stationed at Plön Castle.

Letters, numbered minus 1, 0-11, 13-37, 37a, 38-39, from Geoffrey Woolley, usually from Washington DC on Times correspondent paper, and postcards and telegrams. The letters include embarking on the Queen Elizabeth at Southampton (6 April), and arrival in Washington DC (15 April); taking rooms in Dr Hendry's house in Washington (20 April), later taking rooms at The Anchorage, Connecticut Avenue (8 July), and a trip around the USA via Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans (Oct.-Nov.). Letter no. 32 encloses a tourist booklet on Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. The postcards include two from Gander, Newfoundland, 21 Aug. and 6 Sept., on leaving and returning to North America.

Letters from Geoffrey Woolley, usually on Times Washington correspondent paper, including the US presidential election and arrangements for returning to Britain. Gaps include Feb. and April-July. Some of these letters may be carbon copies or drafts of letters in L 1/23, or letters that have lost their envelopes.

Letters from his father, from Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, usually written weekly, usually with postscripts from his mother.

Letters from his father, from Rhyd Hall, Tredegar, usually written weekly, usually with postscripts from his mother.

Original bundle of letters, and two cards, from Jean-Claude Gardin, 1 Feb. 1948-29 Dec. 1965, mainly 1948-1954, although many of the letters are incompletely dated. At least one of the letters was written from Beirut, and his address in Sept. 1953 was Villa Racurie, 76 rue de Sèvres, Paris 7.

Diary entries entitled 'Log of Jamboree, August 1933', describing a visit to London, including "Got to Marble Arch. Anti-War demonstration. Something vast. A. Bevan M.P., Tom Mann, Beverley Nichols, etc. speaking. Colossal procession. Queer speciments of humanity. Bought programme (3d.). Movietone Van in attendance" (30 July); boat crossing Dover-Ostend; train journey to Kőln, Germany, including meeting Arthur Short, assistant commissioner for Wales, "an amazing meeting - 1/3000 chance! Talking to Nazis - ever so nice" (31 July). The journey was probably to the 4th World Scout Jamboree at Gödöllő, Hungary, 2-13 Aug. 1933.

Journal for the year 1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1935, at home and at Caius College, Cambridge, including a list of books read during the year (76).

Journal for the year 1 Jan.-31 Dec. 1936, at home and at Caius College, Cambridge, including a list of books read during the year (74).

Volume containing diary entries, musings, poems, extracts, and books read (10).

Volume containing diary entries, poems, extracts, lists of letters sent and received, and of plays (2) and books (3) read.

Title page and three loose pages of diary entries describing the formation of the 75th Anti-Tank Regiment RA at Huyton, co. Lancs, around a nucleus of officers and other ranks from the 59th Anti-Tank Regiment RA. Second Lieutenant G. D. Woolley RA was posted to the unit from the 1st Reserve Field Regiment.

Loose pages, formerly gathered into a home-made volume. Includes letters from Robert Eckert of Freeport, IL, USA, discussing his 'Edward Thomas: a biography and a bibliography' (1937); and training programmes for A, B and C Batteries, 75th Anti-Tank Regiment RA, for the week commencing 10 March 1941.