['Bibliography of Airships' and scrapbook containing around 100 newspaper cuttings on the R100.] Notebook containing bibliographical references to individual airships, compiled by S. Maurice Evans for an unpublished work, with scrapbook.

In a letter to Gertrude Tomkinson of 10 June 1934 (offered separately as part of an archive relating to the loss of HM Airship C8) Evans states that he was 'stationed at Kingsnorth [Airship Station] near Hoo for sometime during the War [...] but not drafted there before the end of 1916'. In another letter to the same recipient on 24 July, he mentions that he is writing an 'account of the work of the Airship during the war'. Neither that book nor any other appears to have been published by Evans, but the present notebook and scrapbook were clearly intended as reference material for a work on airships, and indicate the care he took over the subject. The NOTEBOOK is 194pp., 12mo. In red patterned paper boards, with calligraphic white label by Evans on front cover reading 'BIBLIOGRAPHY | OF AIRSHIPS'. Author's ownership inscription on front free endpaper: 'S. Maurice Evans. | Architect | 120 Manor Park SE13 | Jan: 1924'. The notebook is compiled in pencil in a neat, close hand, and it still represents a valuable assemblage of contemporary information about individual airships. Inside the front cover is an impressive list of the abbreviations of his sources, both magazines and books. The first main page is headed 'AIRSHIP BOOK NOTES | INDEX', with headings 'Outline of Books', 'Notes on Chapter, Introduction, Opening', 'PIONEERS of Flying'. Early headings begin with: Balloons; Early Dirigibles; French Airships; British Airships; British Non Rigids; German Airships; German Rigids (including bibliographical references to 'Zepps Brought Down'; with sections on Italian, Spanish, Austrian, Russian and American airships, and one on 'Various Countries'. The main body of bibliographical references follow from p.35 to the end, contained in numerous sections on individual airships with such names as Giffard, Tissandier, Santos Dumonts, Lebaudy, Clement Bayard III, Nulli Secundus II, Parseval I. The section on 'British Rigids' contains references to airships ranging from the R1 to the R101. There are also lists of bibliographical references to broader topics such as 'Work of Non Rigids in War', 'Parachutes', 'Rigids - Design', 'Commercial Rigids', 'Mooring Airships', 'Machinery' and 'U.S.A.' The SCRAPBOOK is of grey card, in foolscap 8vo. Both album and contents are in good condition, with the cuttings discoloured by age. The album contains eleven loose leaves on which newspaper cuttings from the year 1930 have been laid down, with sixty of the cuttings relating to the R100, a few to the R101, and one (Daily Herald, 13 May 1930) to plans for a 'New Air Giant', the R102. The scrapbook also contains a batch of around eighty loose cuttings, also from 1930, most of them also relating to the R100, and a few concerning the Graf Zeppelin (for example 'Eight Tons of Zeppelin. Dr. Eckener wades on the Bridge', 'From Lady Drummond-Hay. On Board the Graf Zeppelin. Pernambuco, Tuesday.'). There is also a batch of loose larger extracts (many full newspaper pages), including the front and back pages of the Daily Mirror, 2 October 1933, 'Two Nations' Monument to R101 | Poignant Unveiling Scenes', several relating to the crash of the Hindenburg, 1937, and a few to the Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race, 1969.