Item ASTON, GG 4/10 - Correspondence with military and naval colleagues, 1904-1929, on subjects including history, strategy, intelligence and diplomacy

Correspondence with various friends and colleagues including Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts on plans for a German invasion of northern Europe, FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig on positioning of American attacks in World War One; Rt Hon Samuel John Gurney Hoare, Secretary of State for Air on air raid warnings; Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, MP criticising Aston's book on World War One; Adm Charles William de la Poer Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford of Metemmeh and of Curraghmore on the foundation of the Naval Intelligence Department at the Admiralty with related memorandum; John William Fortescue on Naval strategy during the Napoleonic wars; R Adm Wilfrid Allan Egerton on torpedoes, fortification and military theory; George Clarke Sydenham 1st Baron Sydenham of Combe and others on a possible career for Aston in politics; Rt Hon Edward Grey on his hopes for avoiding war; Hankey to Harold Sidney Harmsworth 1st Viscount Rothermere of Hemsted recommending Aston for a chair in naval history at Cambridge University; Lt Gen Sir Launcelot Edward on Aston's chances of further employment; Sir Julian Corbett on naval security; Rt Hon Gen Jan Christian Smuts on Aston's work for the South African government; Adm Sir Francis Charles Bridgeman on Rt HonWinston Churchill; Frederick John Napier Thesiger Chelmsford, 1st Viscount of Chelmsford, First Lord of the Admiralty on the British fleet and the League of Nations; Sir Charles Hartington on Aldershot Command, the defence of Constantinople and the contents of his despatch on his three years as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Allied Forces of Occupation in Turkey; AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes on his opposition to naval disarmament; AF Charles Edqward Madden on Aston's lecture on British sea diplomacy; Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson of Trent, Dorset, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in India on India; Gen Sir Frederick Spencer Robb on the change of British military base in World War One; Rt Hon Maj Gen John Edward Bernard Seely on the passage of the South African Defence Bill and other matters; Gen. Sir (Francis) Reginald Wingate, 1st Bt Wingate of Dunbar and Port Sudan on Col (Hon) Milo George Talbot; Sir Owen Seaman, Editor of _Punch _on Aston's work for the magazine. With list of correspondents and dates. 1 file