Sketchbook including ideas for Burghclere and other studies

Among the pages of the present lot is an idea for the east wall of the Sandham Memorial Chapel, Burghclere, (National Trust), showing crosses and the identifiable doorways either side of the altar (illustrated); a soldier sweeping (recognizable by his puttees) inscribed 'for sweeping out tent'; wounded soldiers being bathed, relating to Spencer's time as an orderley at the Beaufort Military Hospital, Bath, which have a direct link to the Sandham Memorial Chapel, in particular Ablutions, 1928, (Bell 130f) and Washing Lockers, 1929, (Bell 130j); A list headed 'Hold All' of week-end necessities; a pen and ink study of figures carrying crosses (squared for transfer); a figure polishing buttons (probably an idea for Kit Inspection, 1930, (Bell 130k)); a list of features used in some paintings; and a list of trees, flowers and fruits citing which paintings they are depicted in, for example Rhodadendrum (sic), Convoy arriving with Wounded, 1927, (Bell 130a); Chestnuts, The Nativity, 1912, (Bell 11); Holyhock, The Nativity, 1912, (Bell 11); Apples, The Apple Gatherers, 1912-13, (Bell 12); Dog rose bush, branch of Ivy, Monkey puzzle tree, fir tree 'Zacharias', (Zacharias and Elizabeth, 1913-14, (Bell 16)); Old mans beard, Swan Upping ((Swan Upping at Cookham, 1915-16, (Bell 27); Thistles, 'Travoys picture' (Travoys with Wounded Soldiers Arriving at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, 1919, (Bell 30)); Ivy and Privet Christ Carrying the Cross, 1920, (Bell 38); May Hedge, Cow Parsley, Buttercups and Daiseys (sic), Ivy, White Roses, Cyprus (sic) bush, Clover, Grasses, Campions, Cornflower, Dandelions and Virginia Creeper, The Resurrection, Cookham, 1924-6, (Bell 116).