| Description | Manuscript unless otherwise stated. Letters divided into two folders, and described below in these groups.
Letters covering the period 1901-1908, comprising a letter composed by Egon and written by Loetitia Sharpe and another letter written by Egon both dated 1901, a letter dated 1905 written on Georg's typewriter, and letters dated from 1906-1907 on games, sport (especially cricket, basketball and lacrosse), his model railway, on visiting Gwens College Museum to see Egyptian artefacts, on seeing a Holman Hunt exhibition, seeing "Peter Pan" and test marks whilst at Lady Barn House School, letters about riding, sailing and walking whilst holidaying with the Blakes at Yeabridge, and a letter on sending a photograph album to his mother on her birthday and sports at Dragon School, Oxford.
Letters covering the period 1912-1926, on books read, visting the house of the Winchester Headmaster for tea, postcards and letters on life and work at the Admiralty Ministry of Shipping, on time spent with Edward Arthur Milne, on returning to his rooms at Cambridge, on performing as a police constable in a mock trial for the Magpie and Stump Club, on trips to Cornwall, on getting a senior scholarship and going to memorial service for Mr Seally Taylor, on hearing of uncle Arthur Beilby Pearson-Gee's death, on Karl's lecture on relationships between physical and mental characters in familial relations, on holidays in Brighton (with cousin George R Sharpe) and Portishead, and visiting aunt Julia Sharpe in Lyme Regis, on sketching, character of Robert Blake, and talk of Newnham College between Miss Shapley and Aunt Julia at Lyme Regis, and family holiday at the Old School House in Dorking. |