Two manuscripts with notes from the donor.
The first manuscript 'Modern Degeneracy' is in a bound ledger. The title page carries the dedication 'to EBCJ' [Emily Beatrix Coursolles Jones (Topsy)]. The manuscript finishes about half way through the ledger, and is paginated 1-70. The following page has two loose sheets [of the story] originally clipped to the page and a further dedication 'To EBCJ as far as it is finished and as far as it is unfinished from Romer Wilson'. It is dated 'Monday 7.pm.' and a pencil addition has been made 'July 26th 1915'. The manuscript appears to be unpublished and is described in the donor's notes as a lesbian love story.
The second manuscript, 'If all the young men' has been removed from its original spring binder which was in poor condition. The inner folder is inscribed with EBC Jones' name and address, the date (23.07.1917) and the dedication 'To DSR from RMW'. Following the title page, there is a drawing 'The Explanation . DSR explains the situation'. The manuscript is unpaginated. The novel was published as 'If all these young men' in 1921. It is this work which is thought by the Coursolles Jones family and their descendents to be about the Cambridge coterie of Petica (Tica) Coursolles Jones, Donald Struan Robertson (her husband), Margaret Gwendolin (Pikey) Coursolles Jones, Margery (Margie) Garrett and Charles Edward Coursolles Jones (her first husband, killed in the First World War) and Edward Dominick Spring Rice (her second husband).
Notes from the donor (October 2006) explain the background and family connections, as well as provenance of the manuscripts.