From information supplied by the vendor, these papers were formerly held in the battered remains of a box file and were in the possession of the Canadian novelist and poet Elizabeth Smart (1913-86). The connection between Elizabeth Smart and Humphrey Jennings is not clear. Smart's son, the poet Sebastian Barker (1945-2014), made some attempt to arrange and number the papers. The pencil page numbers which recur throughout are presumed to be the work of Sebastian Barker. Barker's initial listing of the papers ('Humphrey Jennings Papers from the effects of Elizabeth Smart') and the paper wrappers he employed in this exercise have been retained, and are catalogued as MS Add.10097/6.