Acceptance of a luncheon invitation from the publisher John Lane.

Mrs. Edith Bland née Edith Nesbit was an author and poet. One letter bears the date June 13, 1905; the rest of the letters are undated. However, the last letter is on the business stationary of The Eye-Witness, a serial Cecil Chesterton purchased and began editing in 1912.

Letters refer to a projected series of books called the "Bath Classics" and more specifically to Don Quixote. R. Brimley Johnson was a friend and publisher.

Chesterton talks about celebrating birthdays.

The note reads, "With love and grateful remembrance to the American Republic and to the University of Notre Dame in particular." The note was taken from a copy of Cecil Chesterton's book, The Prussian Hath Said In His Heart (London: Chapman and Hall, 1914); however, the circumstances of the note are unknown.

E.C. Bentley was an English writer best known for his detective novel Trent's Last Case. His friendship with Chesterton went back to their schooldays together at St. Paul's.

L.E. Berman revised Grierson and Miles's adaption of Chesterton's Napoleon of Notting Hill for the Royalty Theatre. Lilian Locke sends a congratulatory note on the success of the play.

This letter concerning a pageant to be staged by the Catholic Drama League was sent jointly by Chesterton and others. It is accompanied by a note from Dorothy Collins, Chesterton's secretary, to Ernest Oldmeadow, best known as the editor of The Tablet.

Chesterton expresses his gratitude to an unknown correspondent for help with a citation.

Mourning card printed on the occasion of G.K. Chesterton's death. Frances Chesterton expresses her gratitude for the sympathy and condolences of well-wishers.

Nora Crimmins was a librarian in the public library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Chestertons befriended her during one of their trips to the United States.

Folder includes Desiderata pages and letters from dealers concerning G.K. Chesterton's drawings.

Folder includes a single torn page proposing a book for children about trades and professions; the page is tentatively dated as going back to 1896.

Handwritten literary fragment covering four sides of a folded half sheet. The narrative concerns a character named Foo Chi.

Book review of W.R. Titterton's Me as a Model (London: Frank and Cecil Palmer, 1914). A reproduction of an Alvin L. Coburn photograph portrait of G.K. Chesterton is inserted as a frontispiece of this small bound manuscript.

Holograph manuscript of the essay Divorce Versus Democracy, which was published in Nash's Magazine and later in pamphlet form in 1916. Small bound manuscript includes a frontispiece reproduction of a Howard Coster photograph portrait of G.K. Chesterton.

L.E. Berman revised for the theatre Francis D. Grierson's and C.W. Miles' adaptation of Chesterton's Napoleon of Notting Hill, which was first published in 1904.

This poem dedicated to the University of Notre Dame was inspired by Chesterton's attendance of a football game at the stadium on 1930 October 11.

Typed manuscript includes holograph title plus handwritten corrections and notations.

A handwritten poem, religious in nature, that has been crossed out. One side of the folded sheet contains a few rough sketches of faces.

A handwritten literary fragment titled “A Metaphysical Policeman.” One side of the paper contains rough sketches, including self-portraits of G.K. Chesterton.

This humorously illustrated poem dates back to the 1890s according to the bibliographer, John Sullivan.

This item was published in the "Open Letters" section of The Century Magazine on pages 634-635 (volume 85, issue 4, February 1913).

A poem plus illustrations dedicated to E.C. Bentley, one of several that Chesterton wrote on his friend from his St. Paul's school days.

This small bound manuscript has a reproduction of a Howard Coster photograph as its frontispiece.

Humorous handwritten notes with regard to naming the son of Chesterton's friend, Lucian Oldershaw.

Typed manuscript and revised magazine pages have corrections written in Chesterton's own hand. The eight stories that comprise The Incredulity of Father Brown were originally published in Cassell's Magazine and in Nash's Pall Mall Magazine before they were gathered and published as a book in 1926.

Signature appears to be taken from the minutes of a meeting of G.K.'s Weekly," over which Chesterton presided as chairman.