• Copy of article from The Times, dated 5 May 1914, reporting the attack on the portrait, then on display at the Royal Academy, by the suffragette Mary Wood.
• Letter from the restorer to Milner, dated 6 December 1924, discussing the damage done to the portrait.

• Letter from Lady Baden-Powell to C.K. Adams, director of the National Portrait Gallery, dated 4 April 1959, stating that she has no knowledge of the portrait.
• Letter from Lady Baden-Powell to C.K. Adams, dated 13 April 1959, giving her opinion of the portrait.

• Letter from George Bernard Shaw to H.M. Hake, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, dated 15 July 1944, offering the portrait to the Gallery. Reproduced by kind permission of The Society of Authors, on behalf of the estate of G.Bernard Shaw.

• Letter from Sargent to Viscount Dillon, chairman of the National Portrait Gallery's trustees, dating 6 January 1919, accepting the commission.

• Letter from Augustus John to Evan Charteris, dated 14 May 1929, giving his opinion of Roberts.

• Letter from Beerbohm to H.M. Hake, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, dated 3 December 1935, regarding the proposal to have Eves make a portrait of him.

• Letter from Tom Phillips to Robin Gibson, curator at the National Portrait Gallery, undated, describing how the portrait was made.

• Letter from Humphrey Ocean to C.S. Smith, director of the National Portrait Gallery, dated 22 July 1996, giving an account of the sitter and the sittings.

• Fax from Ross Wilson to C.S. Smith, the
  director of the National Portrait Gallery, dated 17 July 1993, regarding his commission to paint Derek Walcott.

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