Letter, Friday in Easter Week [1913 Apr., Blumtisham Rectory] to Tony [Catherine H. Godfrey].

Published, in part, in v. 1 of The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers, ed. by Barbara Reynolds, p. 72-73.
Sayers comments on the C.U. (Christian Union) and discusses events at Somerville College including her coursework and friends.

Letter, 1913 Jul. 11, Bluntisham Rectory to Tony.

Published, in part, in v. 1, p. 76-77, with the date 1913 Jul 22.
Sayers confesses she has been lazy and that she misses Oxford, even if in one exam she was the only woman taking the exam and was "isolated like a leper."

Letter, 1913 Jul. 29, Bluntisham Rectory, to Tony.

Published, in part, in v. 1, p. 77-80.
Sayers acknowledges the receipt of a letter from "Tony" and then tells of her working on an epic entitled "Encaenia." In red pen she writes: "Warning!!! This whole letters is a fearful yarn about the Encaenia & has nothing else in it-so I wouldn't be bored to read it if I were you." She notes falling in love with Maurice Roy Ridley (Chaplain of Balliol), but notes that "my loves are always unsatisfactory." Sayers discourses at some length on various persons associated with Oxford.

Postcard, [1913?], Bluntisham, to C. H. Godfrey.

1 British postal postcard (with George V half-penny)
The text of the postcard reads: I have found such a ripping motto for the C.U. (at least, the Bible Circles) in Thomas à Kempis: "I teach without noise of words, without confusion of opinions, without the pride of honour, without the scuffling of arguments." Don't you think "the scuffling of arguments" is a gorgeous phrase? Dorothy.

Letter, [1914] Jul. 28, Bluntisham Rectory, to Tony.

Sayers takes note of her planned trip to France and comments on various social engagements of recent time.

Letter, [1915] Jan. 5, Bluntisham Rectory, to Tony.

Sayers writes of the war and her poems about Oxford.

Letter, 1915 Jan. 6, Bluntisham Rectory, to Tony.

A letter of poems, the first of which is entitled: Term-Thoughts in Vacation.

Letter, [1915] Jul. 19, Bluntisham, to Tony.

Sayers writes about her classmates at Oxford.

Letter, [1915?] Sep. 22, Bluntisham Rectory, to Tony.

Sayers writes about choir practice and various friends at the Front.

Letter, [1915] Nov. 23, Bluntisham Rectory, to Tony.

Published in v. 1, p. 115-117.
Sayers informs Tony of her decision to teach and comments on her interviews. She discusses her choice of a position in the Hull High School under the headmistress of a Miss Elliott (Ethel Mary Linda Elliott).

Letter, 1934 Apr. 30, 24 Newland Street, Witham, Essex, to "Dear Aunt Ann," (Nancy Pearn)

Nancy Pearn was Sayers's literary agent. The letter concerns a "Queen Elizabeth party" and some literary matters.

Letter, 1934 Sep. 6, 24 Newland Street, Witham, Essex, to Mr. Larkin.

Sayers writes asking that she be allowed to review John Carter and Graham Pollard's An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets (London: Constable; New York: C. Scribner's, 1934). Two newspaper clippings on the Carter and Pollard book are included.

Letter, 1935 Nov. 13, 24 Newland Street, Witham, Essex, to Mr. Hopkins.

Likely to Gerard Hopkins, nephew of Gerard Manley Hopkins, thanking him for his gift and letter. She also discusses "the Harriet-Peter situation" and comments on what her time at Oxford meant to her.

Letter, 1937 May 9, 24 Newland Street, Witham, Essex, to Nancy Pearn ("Dear Bun").

Sayers discusses her plans for getting them to the Coronation of George VI. (1937 May 12).

Postcard, 1937 Sep. 30 London (postmark), to Nancy Pearn.

1 postcard
The postcard is a playbill for Busman's Honeymoon, a play by Sayers and Muriel St. Clare Byrne. The text of the postcard reads: Dear Bun - Here is a new poster for your wall - up to date! Doing very well so far - Love D.L.S.

Letter, 1939 Sep. 27, 24 Newland Street, Witham, Essex, to M. E. Clark.

This letter to Mary Elizabeth Clark, Smith College Class of 1926, was in response to a letter Clark had written Sayers. The letter was in Clark's inscribed copy of Sayers' The Mysterious English (London: Macmillan, 1941. Macmillan warm pamphlets, no. 10). The inscription reads: With greetings from England & Dorothy L. Sayers.

Poems to real people, by D. L. S. [1914?]

These poems (never published) are copies of poems Sayers had written to historical individuals and friends, such as Sir Ernest Shackelton. They are dated in the manuscript, 1908-1912.

[Poems], C. H. G. from D. L. S., Oxford 1915.

Eleven poems, entitled "The last castle," were published in her Op. 1 (Oxford: B. H. Blackwell, 1916).

Poem "Pussydise Lost".

Print (pre-print) of the poem with illustration surrounding the text. The poem is mounted on brown paper that has on it: Press D. L. S. The poem appeared in Everybody's weekly (1952 Jun. 7), p. 22.