The Queen's Own Book of the Red Cross -- Garbo

 

Just before Christmas, I was looking online for the short story "Mrs. Miniver Makes a List" to share on the blog and I was unable to find a text version to paste in so I made a video of myself reading the story aloud. 

While I was looking for the story, I found that it had originally been written for a compilation called The Queen's Own Book of the Red Cross, brought out in 1939 by London publisher Hodder and Stoughton, London. The volume was a wartime fundraiser for the Red Cross, to which writers, photographers, artists, and other creatives contributed their work.  Wikipedia has a list of the contributors: 

• A. E. W. Mason, "The Conjurer", a story
• Hugh Walpole, "The Church in the Snow", a story
• John Masefield, "Red Cross", a poem
• Ian Hay, "The Man who had Something Against Him"
• Charles Morgan, "Creative Imagination", an essay
• D. L. Murray, "Only a Sojer!", a story
• T. S. Eliot, "The Marching Song of the Pollicle Dogs", a poem
• T. S. Eliot, "Billy M'Caw: The Remarkable Parrot", a poem
• H. M. Tomlinson, "Ports of Call", a story
• A. A. Milne, "The General Takes Off His Helmet", a play
• Cecil Roberts, "Down Ferry Lane"
• E. M. Delafield, "The Provincial Lady in War-time", a story
• Cedric Hardwicke, "One Man in His Time Plays Many Parts"
• Daphne du Maurier, "The Escort", a story
• Ann Bridge, "Looking Back on May the Sixth, 1935"
• Jan Struther, "Mrs. Miniver makes a List", a story
• Eric Ambler, "The Army of Shadows", a story
• Howard Marshall, "The Fisherman's England"
• Humfrey Jordan, "The Boatswain Yawned", a story
• Alfred Noyes, "A Child's Gallop", a poem
• Alfred Noyes, "The Stranger", a poem
• O. Douglas, "Such an Odd War!", a story
• Howard Spring, "Christmas Honeymoon", a story
• Dorothy Whipple, "No Robbery", a story
• Lord Mottistone, "Tell Them, Warrior"
• L. A. G. Strong, "A Gift from Christy Keogh", a story
• Walter de la Mare, "And So To Bed", a poem
• Walter de la Mare, "Joy", a poem
• Denis Mackail, "It's the Thought that Counts", a story
• Gracie Fields, "On Getting Better"
• C. H. Middleton, "Keep That Garden Going"
• Georgette Heyer, "Pursuit", a story
• Edith Evans, "The Patriotism of Shakespeare", an essay
• H. C. Bailey, "The Thistle Down", a story
• C. Day-Lewis, "Orpheus and Eurydice", a translation from Virgil's "Georgics"
• Ruby Ferguson, "Mrs. Memmary's Visitors", a story
• J. B. Morton, "A Love Song"
• Frank Smythe, "The Crag"
• Mary Thomas, "Our Knitting Forces"
• Collie Knox, "This Flag Still Flies Over All Mankind", homage to the Red Cross

Artists

• Cecil Beaton, a photograph of the Queen
• William Russell Flint, The Words of His Majesty the King, a picture
• Edmund Dulac, a picture
• Frank Brangwyn, a picture
• J. Morton Sale, The Red Cross of Comfort, a picture
• Edmund Blampied, The Symbol, a picture
• Dame Laura Knight, Hop Pickers, a picture
• Bip Pares, a picture
• Arthur Wragg, a picture
• Norman Wilkinson, a picture

• Rex Whistler, In the Wilderness, a picture
• Mabel Lucie Attwell, a picture
• Ivor Novello, We'll Remember, a manuscript of a war song

Here's some art from the book: 

Dame Oaura Knight "The Hop Pickers"

The book also includes the sheet music for a song called "We'll Remember" by Welsh composer Ivor Novello. I couldn't find a recording of that song, but here's another lovely piece he did for a musical called "Perchance to Dream."