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Personal minute (M330/62) by Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister, to Rt Hon (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Minister of Defence, on the central organisation for defence and with an annex on the implications of suggested reforms in defence organisation. Photocopy initialled typescript 6pp

Note by A M Bailey, Ministry of Defence, to Gen Sir Ian Jacob forwarding a note on recent discussions on tailoring strategy to resources. Copy Typescript 6pp

Record by the Cabinet Office of a meeting at Admiralty House between the Prime Minister, Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, Minister of Defence and Minister of Aviation at which a minute (3/4/118) by the Prime Minister on Central Organisation for Defence, presented to Parliament 1958 Jul, Cmnd 476 (HMSO, London) was discussed and at which the Minister of Defence was invited to prepare a report, giving alternative methods of reorganisation, with the assistance of Gen Sir Ian Jacob and Ismay. Copy Typescript 1p

Letter from Ismay regarding vol 5, book 1 of Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's memoirs to Churchill, Denis Kelly and Miss M E Green as at 2/3/220 annotated and endorsed by Churchill and Kelly. Manuscript and typescript 2pp

Report outlining HM Treasury's interest in defence reorganisation. Copy Typescript 5pp

Copy of telegram sent from Rt Hon (Robert) Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary to Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister regarding the role of Ismay in the Foreign Secretaries' conference Moscow, USSR, Nov 1943. Typescript, 1p

Copy of telegram to be sent by Ismay to Lt Gen Sir Frederick Morgan expressing regret at being unable to attend the launch of US Gen Dwight David Eisenhower's book, Crusade in Europe (William Heinemann, London, 1948). Typescript, 1p

Copy of telegram sent by Ismay to Dwight David Eisenhower, US President congratulating him on a speech. Typescript, 1p

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 exchange of telegrams between Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and Ismay on Operation JUBILEE, the Dieppe raid. Copy Typescript 2pp

Corrected drafts and retypes of memoirs.

Telegram to Ismay from Adm Lord Louis Mountbatten offering congratulations (on award of the honour of CH); letter from Ismay to Mountbatten relating to Edwina Mountbatten and a possible meeting with Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister on prisoners of war and on the wind up of Supreme Allied Command South East Asia (SACSEA) ; papers relating to Mountbatten's command in South East Asia; letter from Ismay to Mountbatten relating to Mountbatten's return from SACSEA and his naval rank. Typescript, 9pp

Correspondence between Ismay and the Commonwealth Office concerning his war gratuity. Typescript 4pp

Correspondence regarding burglary and insurance claims, India. 7pp

Correspondence mostly congratulatory and social between Ismay and correspondents with surnames beginning with 'A' including Rev Lancelot J Allen, 1915, 1943-1961 relating to Charterhouse, Surrey with text of Allen's sermon at Charterhouse 12 Dec 1946; Rt Hon Leopold Stennet Amery, 1951 recommending his son Julian Amery for a post at the Commonwealth Relations Office; John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, 1931, 1933, 1959 relating to India with printed memoir of Anderson reprinted from 'Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society', vol 4, Nov 1958; G Murray Andrews, 1957 relating to an appeal fund for Tewkesbury Abbey; William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, 1939 relating to the security of the Suez Canal and possible attacks by Italy, request for an Indian brigade in Egypt, latest situation in the Western Desert, North Africa during World War Two. With various papers and letters relating to Australia. 1 file

Correspondence, mostly congratulatory and social between Ismay and correspondents with surnames beginning with 'C' including A H Candlin, 1951 relating to Ismay's speech in the House of Commons on Defence; Victor Frederick William Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland, 1944-1947 relating to Joint Intelligence Committee of Chiefs of Staff; R Adm William Scott Chalmers, 1940 with paper relating to situation in Narvik, Norway, 1940 and reply from Ismay; Lt Col Sir Martin Charteris, 1964 relating to a portrait sitting; Gen D de Chassey, 1957 relating to Ismay's contribution to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO); AF Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield, 1938-1956 paying tribute to Ismay's work; FM Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode, 1936-1940 relating to work at the War Office; Captain Arthur Wellesley Clarke, 1943 relating to a recent naval engagement, visit to North Africa, meeting with ADF Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Baronet Cunningham; Sir (Geoffrey) Miles Clifford, 1964 relating to Ismay's proposed resignation from the Panel of the Leverhulme Trust Fund; Capt Clive Meysey, 1933 relating to retreat of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from Dunkirk France, 1940; John Rupert Colville, 1954-1955 relating to a television programme on Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill; Colin Coote, 1951-1965 relating to his retirement as Editor of The Daily Telegraph and to Churchill's declining health; Brig A T Cornwall Jones, 1945 relating to the British Joint Staff Mission, Washington DC USA and Ismay's journey; Sir Herbert (James) Creedy, 1931 relating to his retirement; Maj Gen Sir James Cubitt, 1916-1930 relating to World War One and Staff College, Camberley; Adm Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, 1943-1951 relating to NATO and Atlantic Command. With correspondence from representatives of Canada; messages of congratulation from Mayors and other representatives of the corporation of Cheltenham; correspondence relating to an obituary notice by Ismay for Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell of Oxford with Ismay's notes. 1 file

Correspondence, mostly congratulatory and social between Ismay and correspondents with surnames beginning with 'R' also including notes and thankyou letters relating to Ismay and the British Chiefs of Staffs' visit to John D Rockerfeller Jnr's Colonial Williamsburg Inc, Virginia, USA, 1943. 1 file

Correspondence, mostly congratulatory and social between Ismay and correspondents with surnames beginning with 'T' also including Adm Sir William George Tennant, 1942 relating to a new appointment; Sir Geoffrey Harington Thompson, 1938 relating to Sir Robert MacLeod Hodgson and Spain; Sir Henry Thomas Tizard, 1945 relating to the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan, Aug 1945; Ronald Tree, 1945 relating to the army career of his son Michael Tree; MRAF Hugh Montague Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton, 1945 forwarding pamphlets entitled 'The principles of air warfare' (May, 1945) and 'Air power and national security' (Aug 1946) also with letter from Ismay, 1946 in response to request by Trenchard for information on the Chief of Staff Committee; Col Sir John F Turner, 1941 relating to the defence of RAF aerodromes with reply from Ismay giving his views on the fall of Crete, 1941; Sir Walter Tyrell, 1927 relating to the Committee of Imperial Defence Co-ordination Sub-Committee. With letters from correspondents in Turkey. 1 file

Correspondence, mostly congratulatory and social between Ismay and correspondents with surnames beginning with 'H' including FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Nov 1927 relating to minutes sent by Ismay (as secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence); Rt Hon Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane of Cloan [1927] relating to minutes sent by Ismay (as secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence); Maj Leonard Handley, 1947 relating to India; Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge, 2nd Baron Hardinge, Apr 1943 thanking Ismay on behalf of the King for information on the North African campaign and the climate in north Africa; Col Eric Hayes, 1936 thanking Ismay for efforts on his behalf; Arnold Danford Patrick Heeney, 1952 relating to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO); Maj Gen Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart, 1943 sending Home Forces calendar for 1943; Wg Cdr Sir Eric John Hodsoll, 1952 relating to NATO and civil defence; Maj Gen Sir Leslie Hollis to Wheatley, London Controlling Section, 1946 relating to honours and awarding criteria; Maj Gen Sir Leslie Hollis, 1947 relating to the Ministry of Defence under Rt Hon Albert Victor Alexander. 1 file

Correspondence, mostly congratulatory and social between Ismay and correspondents with surnames beginning with 'B' including Robert McGowan Barrington-Ward, Editor The Times relating to a quotation sent by Ismay; Gen Sir George de Symons Barrow relating to Desert Mounted Corps dinner and on a poem, possibly by FM Archibald Percival, 1st Earl Wavell; Sir Gerald (Reid) Barry relating to the Festival of Britain 1951 and Ismay's appearance in a television programme about Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill; Gen Sir William Henry Bartholomew; William Loren Batt relating to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO); Gerald Baynham relating to Charterhouse, Surrey; R Adm. Tufton Percy Hamilton Beamish relating to Joint Service (Consultative) Committee; J Burgon Bickersteth, relating to Canada, the end of World War Two, the Nuremberg Trials, 1946; Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead relating to British Military Mission to Yugoslav Partisans, 1944–1945; Oswald Birley relating to portraits; AVM Charles H Blount; N A Bogdan; Robert John Graham Boothby, Baron Boothby relating to television programme on politicians of the 1930s, attempt to get position of Chief of the Imperial General Staff for Maj Gen Sir John (Theodosius) Burnett-Stuart; Brendan Bracken, 1st Viscount Bracken relating to Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the 1945 general election; US Gen Omar Nelson Bradley relating to NATO; Sir Harry Ernest Brittain relating to a speech by Ismay on Dominion affairs, 1952; Lt Gen Sir Frederick A M Browning relating to a NATO dinner; Lawrence Franklin Burgis relating to Ismay's work on defence organisation, 1962-1963; US Lt Gen Chris E Burrows relating to NATO; Burnett-Stuart with paper on the Home Guard, 1942 and related reply and notes from Ismay. 1 file

Correspondence, mostly congratulatory and social between Ismay and correspondents with surnames beginning with 'S' also including MRAF Sir John (Maitland) Salmond, 1963 denying that he was responsible for Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley's plans for the defence of Singapore in 1932; MRAF Sir John Cotesworth Slessor, 1964 relating to his talk at North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Defence College on nuclear weapons as a deterrent against USSR; text of talk, 1924 by Gen Sir William Joseph Slim, entitled 'What is courage?'; Sir Waldron Smithers, 1942 relating to Intelligence Officers and raiding parties; FM Jan Christian Smuts. 1942 relating to naval stores guards in South Africa, with letter from Ismay, 1950 recalling a speech by Smuts at Dover, Kent during World War Two; Charles M Spofford, 1957 paying tribute to Ismay's work for NATO. 1 file