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Extract from Hansard, House of Commons, vol 126 no 21, cols. 1212-1214 with an account by Lt Col L S Amery, Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, on operations in Somaliland. Printed

Extract from Hansard House of Lords Vol 122 No 47 (Cols 822-996) including a report of a motion on the organisation of joint planning. Printed 32pp

Extracts from Parliamentary debates (Hansard), House of Commons, 25 Nov 1941 (HMSO, London, 1941) consisting of speech by AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes on his position as Director of Combined Operations and the circumstances of his departure from this post; the importance of amphibious operations; his lack of faith in the Chiefs of Staff system and the war machine in Whitehall. Printed 3pp

Extract from private letter to Ismay from Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East relating to his feelings about CRUSADER, British 8 Army operations in the Western Desert, North Africa 1941-1942. Typescript, 1p

Extract from verbatim record of North Atlantic Council meeting at which Ismay's resignation as Secretary General, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and his replacement by Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henry Spaak was announced, including speeches by Lester Bowles Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada; Christien Pineau, French Minister for Foreign Affairs; Joseph M A H Luns; John Foster Dulles, US Foreign Minister; John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn-Lloyd, UK Minister of State, Foreign Office ; Halvard Lange, Norwegian Minister for Foreign Affairs; P Da Cunha, Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs; M J Bech, Luxembourg Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs; E Averof, Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs; Spaak and Ismay. With letter from Ismay relating to his resignation and proposing that Spaak should succeed him. Typescript, 10pp

Extract from diary of Maj Gen Richard Henry Dewing, UK Army and RAF Liaison Staff, Australia's covering events 25-30 Jul [1943] describing flying conditions between India and Australia. Typescript, 7pp

Page and editions of The Times covering the General Strike, May 1926, first issue one page only (including notice of George Bruce, Ismay family wedding). Printed 3 issues

Foreword by Ismay for pamphlet produced by the British Government for the fifth anniversary of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Typescript, 1p

Formal and personal letters from Ismay to Dwight David Eisenhower, US President relating to his retirement from the post of Secretary General North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). With letter to George W Perkins, US permanent representative, NATO requesting that he forward the letters to the President. Typescript, 3pp

Formal letter from Ismay to Rt Hon Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles requesting that he thank King George VI for his photograph. Typescript, 1p

Formal letter of get well wishes from the North Atlantic Council. With informal note from Ismay on the same subject. Typescript, 2pp

Galley proofs of memoirs, uncorrected. Printed, 92pp

Gloucestershire Echo with photograph of Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Ismay and the Mayor of Cheltenham at Cheltenham Festival. 1p

Parliamentary debates (Hansard), House of Lords official report vol. 163, no.93 6 Jul 1949 (HMSO, London, 1949)

Index sheet to papers at 3/4/114-130. Typescript 2pp

Index sheet to part of the correspondence described as 'Defence-Reorganisation Phase 2' (see 3/4/68-3/4/90). Typescript 1p

Insertions and retyped passages of memoirs; notes and proposed insertions; Typescript carbon.

Papers relating to his life and career, 1917-1963, principally comprising official correspondence with Lt Gen M Brocas Burrows, British Military Mission, Moscow, 1944-1945, Gen Mark Wayne Clark, US Army, 1943-1944, 1951-1952, Maj Gen Richard Henry Dewing, UK Army and RAF Liaison Staff, Australia, 1943-1944, Maj Gen Gordon Edward Grimsdale, Military Attaché andhead of Military Mission to Chungking, China, 1942-1943, AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, Bt, Director of Combined Operations, War Office, 1940-1942, Lt Gen Sir Henry Pownall, South East Asia Command HQ, 1944-1945, Lt Gen Sir Harold Redman, British Joint Staff Mission, Washington DC, 1943-1944, AF Sir James Somerville, Commander-in-Chief Eastern Fleet, 1943-1947, and Maj Gen Sir Edward Spears, Minister to the Lebanon, 1940-1944, and Lt Gen Albert C Wedemeyer, US Army, Deputy Chief of Staff; South East Asia Command, 1944; personal correspondence with and about FM Lord Alanbrooke, 1946-1947, 1957-1963, FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 1941-1961, and FM Archibald Percival Wavell, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and of Winchester, 1943-1946; official andpersonal correspondence with Dwight David Eisenhower, 1942-1965, and AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1943-1954, 1960-1964; correspondence with publishers and colleagues, including Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor; papers relating to India, 1947-1951, including his correspondence as Chief of Staff to Mountbatten, 1947, notes on interviews with Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahomed Ali Jinnah, 1947, letters describing the political situation in India, 1947-1948, and correspondence concerning compensation for Indian Government servants, 1948-1951; correspondence concerning the proposed defence reorganisation, 1955-1963; papers relating to his service as Secretary General, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 1952-1957, including his official progress reports, 1952-1956; newspaper cuttings, statements to the press and texts of speeches and broadcasts, 1952-1957; papers relating to his memoirs, [1940-1960] including correspondence with publishers, 1960-1961, and colleagues, 1957-1960, notebooks, 1940-1960, and drafts and proofs, [1960]. newspaper cuttings, 1943, 1948, 1951-1952, 1957; texts of speeches, 1943-1958; correspondence relating to operations in Somaliland, 1917-1920; notes and papers relating to his studies at Staff College, Quetta and RAF Staff College, 1922-1924. Papers relating to Rt Hon Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, 1940-1965, including personal correspondence with Churchill, 1940, 1943-1945, 1947-1964; correspondence relating to Churchill's memoir The Second World War (Cassell, London, 1948-1954), 1946-1956, including correspondence relating to Dieppe Raid, Aug 1942, dated 1950, and galley proofs, [1948-1954]. Printed material, 1941-1945, 1947, 1951, notably including copies of telegrams sent by Winston Churchill as Prime Minister, 1941-1942; minutes of Chiefs of Staff meetings, 1943-1944; minutes of Combined Chiefs of Staff meetings, 1943, 1945.