55 autograph letters, signed, and 19 autograph postcards, signed, from Rupert Brooke to St John Lucas, with related papers, bound as a volume. These include several drafts and off-prints of poems by Rupert Brooke, annotated by Edward Marsh and numbered as follows:
[1] THE PYRAMIDS 'Where on Egyptian sand the lone sun fades ...', a printed pamphlet, inscribed by St. John Lucas, May 1904.
[3] THE PATH OF DREAMS 'Go, heart, and pluck beside the Path of Dreams ...' Feb. 1905.
[4] THE RETURN 'Long had I dwelt in dreams and loneliness ...'; [AFTERWARDS] 'O, brother, dost thou know what this thing means, to dread ...'
[5a] IT IS WELL 'Nay, love, I weep not, but laugh o'er my dead ...'; IN JANUARY 'What shall I tell thee of ...'; ['In the end'] 'Lo! in the end the pure clean-hearted innocent throng ...'
[9a] 'Only the slow rain falling ...'; DEDICATION 'When I have laid my head upon the breast ...'
[11] THE BASTILLE 'Sullen athwart the freedom of the skies ...' a printed pamphlet, inscribed to St. John Lucas, with and autograph letter, signed, stuck inside the front cover from Rupert Brooke to Lucas asking him to accept the poem, [1905]
[14] [VANITAS] 'Laugh now and live! Our blood is young, our hearts are high ...'
[15a] [THE DAWN] 'When on my night of life the Dawn shall break ...'
[27] [THE BEGINNING] 'Some day I shall rise and leave my friends ...'
[54] 'A song illustrative of a sense of incompatibility between self and universe' 'Things are beasts ...'
[56] FAILURE 'Because God put His adamantine fate ...'.