File contains a photocopied production costs list, a book jacket proof, an original letter from Colin Thubron to publisher Jock Murray VI supplying the foreword for the re-issue, with a copy response from Murray, alongside other editorial and royalty papers.

File contains a monotone photograph of Freya Stark in [?arab headdress], alongside original and copy correspondence between John Murray, publishers, and Tim Mackintosh-Smith, the latter providing the foreword for the re-issue (copies also included). Additional papers comprise copy emails between John Murray publishers and Random House UK concerning the distribution by the latter of its Modern Library edition of "The Southern Gates of Arabia."