The Queen's Book of the 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.

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