The Queen's Book of Red Cross

The Queen's Book of the Red Cross was published in November 1939 in a fundraising effort to aid the Red Cross during World War II. The book was sponsored by Queen Elizabeth, and its contents were contributed by fifty British authors and artists. Contributors Authors: 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