Item GRANT 2/2/1-36 - Letters to Grant and his wife, 1919-1948, chiefly from French General Maxime Weygand and his wife

Letters to Charles John Cecil Grant and Lady Sybil Myra Caroline Grant, mainly from French Gen Maxime Weygand and his wife Renée Weygand, mostly social correspondence relating to visits to Britain and making arrangements for an annual dinner to mark the November armistice, but also including comments by Weygand on the recommendations of FM Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Bt, concerning methods of enforcing the clauses of the Versailles Treaty on the Germans, 1919, and his personal views on the problems of the peace process; correspondence concerning the death of French Marshal Ferdinand Foch, 1929, notably articles written by Weygand and Grant on his career, and the merits of The Biography of the late Marshal Foch (Hutchinson & Co, London, 1929) by Gen Sir George Grey Aston; a letter from Weygand written in 1939 expressing his confidence in the ability of the Allied forces to win the war against Germany. The file also contains two letters from French Gen Maurice Gustave Gamelin, Commander in Chief of the French army, notably praising the solidarity of Great Britain and France in the coming conflict with Germany, 1940. 36 items.