Collection ADAM - ADAM, Gen Sir Ronald Forbes (1885-1982)

The Liddell Hart collection contains a great deal of correspondence between Adam and Capt Sir Basil Liddell Hart (Liddell Hart, 1-4, 1937-1960); including a note by Liddell Hart on discussion with Adam and Col Bernard (Charles Tolver) Paget of Military Operations and Intelligence at the War Office on the reorganisation of the army to provide a co-ordinated defence (Liddell Hart, 11/1935/101, 1935 Nov 15); a note by Liddell Hart on further discussions with Paget and Adam, on the German threat and the problem of co-ordination between the services (Liddell Hart, 11/1936/64, 1936 May 15); a note by Liddell Hart on discussions with Adam,-then Commandant of the Staff College at Camberley-on army education (Liddell Hart, 11/1937/79, 1937 Oct 25); reflections by Liddell Hart on Adam's refusal to consult with him (Liddell Hart, 11/1938/7, 1938 Jan 9); and a note by Liddell Hart on discussions with Maj Gen Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart, 7 Armoured Div, Egypt, 1938-1939, on Hobart's difficulties in Egypt, with comments on Adam, at the time Commander, 3 Army Corps (Liddell Hart, 11/1940/5, 1940 Jan 17). The collection of FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, contains a letter from Adam congratulating Brooke on the award of his KCB, Jun 1940 (Alanbrooke, 8/4/1/-17, 1939-1941); telegrams, 8-9 Dec 1944, between Gen Sir Claude Auchinleck, Alanbrooke and Adam, 2nd Bt, Adjutant General to the Forces, concerning implementation of the PYTHON scheme for repatriation of overseas forces and the decision to postpone return from India of certain Royal Corps of Signals personnel (Alanbrooke, 6/12/15, 1943 Feb 20-1944 Dec 15). Also, letters to Brooke from friends and associates including Adam, commenting on Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant's The turn of the tide (Collins, London, 1957), (Alanbrooke, 12/8/1-18, 1957). The Alanbrooke collection also contains correspondence and papers relating to custody and future use of Brooke's papers notes made by Marian C Long, research assistant to Royal Regiment of Artillery and Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, mainly correspondence between Brooke's wife, Benita Blanche Brooke, and others including Adam (Alanbrooke, 12/15, 1963-1968). The papers of General Sir Richard O'Connor, contain a letter to Adam at the War in appreciation of his visit on 1 Jun 1944 (O'Connor, 5/2/57, 1944 Jun 2).