a desk clock, a gauze dust cloth, half a page of paper, a metronome, two rubber stamps, half an eraser, half a candle, several books, a great amount of paraphanaemia for smoking, reading and writing, several books, a pile of manuscripts, letters and scores, a ruler two feet long, a gargoylish clay bird with a huge mouth, probably an ash tray, a wicked looking tool apparently for cutting wires, a box of matches, a some medicine, a flashlight, a one-page autobiography in the composers handwriting, a pad of papier-mache pencil box, an oriental vase wired as a lamp, a letter file, several bottles partly full of ink glue and medicine, a notepad, and address book, a roller blotter, an inkstand, several dictionaries in several languages, a small silver cup, four pencils, one postage stamp, two nib pens, five razor blades, one paper clip, some photographs of and drawings by the composers two children, and a bronze plaque, six inches by four, with a bas-relief woman holding a bas-relief umbrella. All these things were found on the desk by a careful but very strong hand. All the books sat on their sides. The handsome desk clock sat exactly centred so that from nine to eleven o'clock, the composer cannot see the line of day but only the aid of the clock, and the letter file, with a wooden poll-top like an old-fashioned desk, rested with its back to the composer so that he has to stand up and bend over to open it. Among the various implements for smoking there is half a pipe, just a stemless bowl — but beside it lies the tools for cleaning a whole pipe when it has been smoked. The collected works of Victor Hugo are a Russian edition of the French author's writings, but it lies on top of a Russian-French dictionary. The score of Komedya by Stravinsky, the 19th Symphony is orchestrated, for some reason, for brass band. Two volumes of the easy reading series in English, one entitled Notes About Hunting and the other entitled Notes About the Child, are about a foot apart.

These things are not so much arranged, as scattered, about the desk.