Variation of an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades, with notes on bottom and left side of page.

Variation on an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Illustration for the novel The Club of Queer Trades.

Illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Variation on an illustration for The Club of Queer Trades.

Notes and signatures at bottom of each drawing. The last page of these two album leaves includes a single staff of music and lyrics.

Color sketch on dark paper. Inscribed “She hung her heart upon a hat. G.K.C. Beaconsfield 1910.”

Portrait of G.K.C. and a Shakespearean study.

Notes on bottom of page. Poe is pictured with a monster and a raven. Drawing is inscribed, "When Prose comes in at the door Poetry flies out of the window."

Signature on bottom right of page. Drawing of a witness in court. Sketched on G.K.C.'s stationary from his Overroads, Beaconsfield residence where he lived from 1909 until 1922.

Initials on bottom right of page. Drawing of a man bullying a much smaller man with a knife. G.K.C. was strongly against Nietzcschean eugenics and the Shavian "Superman." Ties to G.K.C.'s collection of essays, Eugenics and Other Evils (London: 1922).

Notes on top and bottom of the page. Inscribed "A busy and unscrupulous career…that of a journalist." Signature in bottom right. Quote comes from Chesterton's lecture on Dickens at the Hague, 1922.

Signature on bottom left of page. George Morrow (1869-1955) was a cartoonist, illustrator, and the long-time art editor for Punch Magazine.

Initials at bottom of both drawings. Drawings entitled "The Crimson Lake" and "Ivory Black." The first shows a red sea with animals, and the second a figure with black face riding an elephant. Drawings were published in The Coloured Lands, a collection of Chesterton's prose and verse with his own illustrations (London: Sheed and Ward, 1938).

Initials at bottom of both drawings. Drawings entitled "Prussian Blue" and "French Ultra Marine." Drawings were published in The Coloured Lands.

Drawing signed by the artist.

Part of a series entitled "G.K.C.'s Famous After X-Mas Cards" or the "Late-For-Everything Series."

Pen and ink drawing, unsigned.

The originals are in the Lilly Library at IU-Bloomington. These facsimiles were published in a limited edition of fifty by the Baker Street Irregulars.

Color drawings on two sheets.

Advertising for Frances Chesterton's play, Faith and Fable.

French text. The English translation, "Protest of French Writers Against Religious Persecution in Mexico," is included in MSE/MD 3718-205.

English version of the short document in MSE/MD 3718-204.

The photos feature Chesterton among a group of people and wagons bearing the Union Jack and signs with slogans such as “The Best Way to Celebrate Peace” “Buy Victory Loan.”

Poem by Frances Chesterton, "In Coelo et Terra." Christmas greeting from the Chestertons to Nora Crimmins, a public librarian in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Poem by Frances Chesterton, "After this our Exile."

Cards printed following the Chestertons' deaths. Also includes a Christmas carol by Chesterton.

Photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn.

Item appears to be a poetic tribute to Chesterton.