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Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, forwarding a copy of letter from Henry Vincent Hodson promising to make a definite decision on whether to write the book on the transfer of power in India by September. Typescript and manuscript, 2pp

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, relating to a recent letter and a future meeting. Typescript, 2pp

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, relating to his proposed meeting with Henry Vincent Hodson. Typescript, 1p

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, relating to Henry Vincent Hodson, Vapal (Vappala) Pangunni Menon and access to papers for Hodson; copy of letter from Ismay to Mountbatten giving approval of the project. Typescript and manuscript, 4pp

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, relating to recent critical publications on Mountbatten and transfer of power in India and agreeing in principle to the publication of an article giving Mountbatten's interpretation of events. Typescript, 3pp

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, relating to possible authors for an book on transfer of power in India. Typescript, 2pp

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, requesting information on the identity of the next UK High Commissioner, India; possibility of Gen Sir Archibald Nye's being appointed; possibilities for Mountbatten's next posting. Typescript, 2pp

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, suggesting economist and editor Henry Vincent Hodson as a possible author for the proposed book on the transfer of power in India and naming supporters for the project in India. Typescript, 1p

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, relating to economist and editor Henry Vincent Hodson, and his work as Provost of the Ditchley Foundation. With copy of letter to Hodson from Vapal (Vappala) Pangunni Menon outlining the project to produce a book on the transfer of power in India and asking him if he would considering its authorship. Typescript, 2pp

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, relating to a proposed visit by Mountbatten to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO); recent meeting with Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and discussion on India. Typescript, 2pp

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, asking Ismay to meet Michael Edwards who was proposing to write a book on the transfer of power in India. Typescript, 1p

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, arranging a meeting. Typescript, 2pp

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, relating to the decision by Henry Vincent Hodson to visit Vapal (Vappala) Pangunni Menon and a request for clarification the circumstances surrounding his appointment as Director of Combined Operations in 1942. With copy of letter from Mountbatten to Clementine Churchill, Lady Churchill and note on an incident in Jun 1941; copy of letter from Lady Churchill informing him that Churchill was unable to remember the incident. Typescript, 5pp

Letter to Ismay from Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, thanking him for assisting him in ascertaining facts related to World War Two and requesting him to confirm details in enclosed paper; 2 copies of draft paper by Mountbatten entitled 'Conversation with Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook after the Battle of Crete about the future of Hitler's campaign against USSR in 1941'. With copy of letter from Clementine Churchill, Lady Churchill informing him that Churchill was unable to remember the incident in question; paper by Mountbatten entitled 'Matters affecting my selection for the position in Combined Operations and South East Asia'. Typescript, 9pp

Note from AF Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope to Ismay and list of those people to whom he had sent appeal letters for the fund for Polish officers suffering from financial difficulties having been unable to return to Poland after World War Two. Typescript and manuscript, 2pp

Letter to Ismay from AF Andrew Browne Cunningham, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope relating to his letter to The Daily Telegraph and The Times criticising an article in The Sunday Times on US Gen Dwight David Eisenhower's book Crusade in Europe (William Heinemann, London, 1948). Manuscript, 2pp

Letter to Ismay from AF Andrew Browne Cunningham, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope relating to Ismay's article in The Daily Telegraph on US Gen Dwight David Eisenhower's book Crusade in Europe (William Heinemann, London, 1948) and expressing his support for Ismay's views. Manuscript, 1p

Letter to Ismay from ADF Andrew Browne Cunningham, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope expressing his support for the appointment of Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, as First Sea Lord. Manuscript, 2pp

Papers used for research for Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's memoirs relating to the Dieppe Raid, Allied attack on Dieppe France, 1942 consisting of Letter from AF Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, to Ismay in reply to his letter (2/3/45). Signed typescript 1 p

Covering letter from AF Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, to Ismay regarding information required for Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's memoirs and forwarding a letter from Lt Gen Sir Henry Pownall to Ismay (2/3/271) referring to BUCANEER, a plan for an operation (not carried out) against the Nicobar and Andamans Islands, Bay of Bengal; covering letter from Mountbatten to Lt Gen Sir Henry Pownall and letter from him to Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill relating to BUCANEER and quoting Maj Gen Orde Charles Wingate's opinion. Signed typescript 6pp