Sketches was used for two different collections. The title first appeared in The Junto, Volume 2, no. 4 (September 1929), for a group containing “Sentiment,” “Musings,” “Midnight,” and “Etched in Ebony.”

Glenn Lord later reused Sketches for a seven-item group published in Trumpet #7: “Ambition in the Moonlight,” “To a Man Whose Name I Never Knew,” “Musings,” “Etched in Ebony,” “The Galveston Affair,” “Surrender — Your Money or Your Vice,” and “Them.” All seven had appeared in various issues of The Junto, a literary travelogue circulated from member to member, with each participant adding material.