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Correspondence relating to the transition of India to independence, including letter from Ismay to Gen Sir Archibald Nye's, on plans for progress towards independence; letter from Rt Hon Sir Anthony Eden to Ismay about a projected meeting; letter from Sir David John Colville, Governor of Bombay, to Ismay; letter from Jawarharlal Nehru, External Affairs Department, India, to Ismay thanking him for a letter; letter from Ismay to Nye with an account of his visit to England and subsequent progress; letter from Ismay to Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe, Governor North West Frontier Province, with regret at Caroe's departure; letter from Caroe, in reply to Ismay's letter of regret; letter from Nye, to Ismay regarding problem of the 'Secretary of State's Services'; letter from Charles Arthur to Ismay on the passing of a privileged destiny; letter from Maj George Fielding Eliot, New York Post, to Ismay on Indian defence and the Middle East; letter from Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill to V Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, regarding the Governor-Generalships of Pakistan and India to be held by Mahomed Ali Jinnah, Governor-General of Pakistan and Mountbatten; note by Ismay to Mountbatten on Governor-Generalship of India referring to FM William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, and AF Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope; letter from Ismay to Rt Hon Clement Richard Attlee, Prime Minister asking for instructions; note by Ismay to Mountbatten giving an account of meetings with opposition leaders and prime minister regarding the Governor-Generalship; letter from Miss M E Green to Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan forwarding a copy of a letter from Churchill to Mountbatten regarding Governor-Generalships; letter from Ismay to Eliot, New York Post, in reply to his letter concerning Indian defence and the Middle East; exchange of letters between W H Morris Jones, Ismay and Harold Laski regarding the proposed appointment of Morris Jones as constitutional adviser to the Pakistan Constituent Assembly and about his present job; letter from Ismay to H M Patel with his views on the Prime Minister's secretariat; letter from Attlee to Mountbatten, offering congratulations; letter from Mountbatten, to Attlee thanking him for his letter of congratulations; letter from William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook of Beaverbrook, New Brunswick and Cherkley, to Ismay regarding relationship with Mountbatten; message of Sidney Smith's, New Delhi, India regarding Ismay and Mountbatten's relationship from A J Henderson to Arthur Christiansen, Editor of The Daily Express; letter from Mountbatten to Ismay offering thanks; letter from Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, to Ismay offering thanks; letter from Sir Eric Charles Mieville, Bombay, India to Ismay; letter from George Abell to Ismay regarding experiences on return to England, visit to the Prime Minister and press comment on Indian independence; letter from Ismay to Beaverbrook regarding relationships between Beaverbrook and Ismay, and Ismay and Beaverbrook and Mountbatten; letter from l Mountbatten, referring to the desirability of a referendum in Kashmir, India; letter from Sir George Cunningham, Governor North West Frontier Province, to Ismay regarding the position there; letter from Beaverbrook, in reply to Ismay's letter regarding relationship with Mountbatten; letter from Patel to Ismay thanking him for his letter with views on the Prime Minister's secretariat; letter from Jinnah to Ismay thanking him for a letter and for a visit; letter from Ismay to FM Sir Claude Auchinleck referring to Auchinleck's letter and proposed resignation and comparing Auchinleck's position with that of AF Alfred Ernie Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield of Ditchling, as Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, and suggesting that Ismay and Auchinleck go together; letter from Mountbatten to Auchinleck proposing his resignation; SC to Mountbatten proposing abolition of Supreme Headquarters; Ismay to Cunningham thanking him letter and with news of events and account of refugees; letter from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to Ismay proposing meeting; letter from Nye to Ismay on Ismay's impending departure; letter from Ismay to Mounbatten proposing to depart on 15 Oct (draft?). Typescript carbon pp

Correspondence concerning the SS OHIO, a US oil tanker that manged to reach Malta in a convoy in 1942 (see 1/11/75-1/11/81).

Newspaper cutting of announcement in the London Gazette of Ismay's appointment as Lt Col for services with Somaliland Camel Corps from 1 Apr 1919. 1p

Daily Mail on lifting of the ban on Tshekedi Khama from entering Bechuanaland in accordance with Ismay's promise when in office. 1 p

Description of 2-4 Whitehall Gardens and 1-8 Richmond Terrace and Great Street Central War Room. Typescript, 2pp

Despatch from Ismay, commanding Mounted Column, Burao, Somaliland to Officer Commanding troops Somaliland reporting movements 8-25 Apr 1919. Signed typescript carbon 6pp

Summary by Ismay (as intelligence officer 1916-18), Burao Somaliland, of intelligence in British Somaliland 1915-Dec 1918, including description of forts; Dervish organisation; Dervish tactics 1914-1917; notes on Dervish personalities (pp 64-74 missing but see 3/1/22); genealogical table of the Mullah (Mahomed bin Abdulla Hassan); map of portion of Somaliland (scale 1:1,000,000 GSGS 1781, revised 1906). Typescript 116pp and map

Memorandum by Ismay and Gen Sir Ian Jacob to Rt Hon (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Minister of Defence, on the higher direction of defence. Printed 16 pp

Records of Ismay's interviews with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India and Mohamed Ali Jinnah, Governor-General of Pakistan Sep-Oct 1947 including: Note by Ismay on conversations with Jinnah 12-14 Sep 1947, on the political and military situation, particularly the massacres of Moslems and the position of the Zahid Hussein, High Commissioner for Pakistan in India; Ismay's secret codicil to the record of conversations with Jinnah for the eyes of the Governor-General, V Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, on Jinnah's lack of faith in the Indian Government and Ismay's attempts to counter it; Ismay's record of talk with Nehru, 2 Oct 1947, on Pakistan's representation to the British Government and other Dominions, the possible appointment of United Nations Observers in Punjab, the character of the present troubles and the position of the State of Junagadh, reporting that the Government of India was not prepared to allow Junagadh to accede to Pakistan; Ismay's record of conversation with Jinnah, 3 Oct 1947 on the Government of India, the role of V J Patel and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the position of the Sikhs, and the State of the North West Frontier Province; note [? by Ismay] on British officers in India, particularly problems consequent on partition, the closure of Supreme Headquarters, and the employment of British officers in India and Pakistan after partition in the event of war between the two countries. Typescript, 21pp

Diary with daily entries by Ismay outlining operations in Somaliland with the Somaliland Camel Corps. Manuscript 18pp

Diary with daily entries by Ismay outlining operations in Somaliland with the Somaliland Camel Corps. Manuscript 11pp

Diary by Ismay of trek by mounted column 9-19 Apr 1919 from Burao to Berbera, Somaliland. Manuscript 2pp

Draft version of chapter 9, section 6 of Maj Gen Robert John Collins' biography of FM Archibald Percival Wavell, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and of Winchester relating to intervention in Greece during World War Two. Typescript, 6pp

Draft version of section in Maj Gen Robert John Collins' biography of FM Archibald Percival Wavell, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and of Winchester relating to Wavell's first meeting with Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Typescript, 1p

Letter from Ismay to be sent to High Commissioners of Commonwealth nations expressing his regret at leaving the position of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, to be sent with copy of Prime Minister, Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's note to the leaders of Commonwealth nations explaining the reasons for Ismay's departure. Typescript, 1p

Letter drafted by Alan Campbell-Johnson, former press attache to Lord Mountbatten, for Ismay to send to Alan Moorehead putting forward his proposal for a book on the transfer of power in India. With covering letter from Campbell-Johnson to Ismay. Typescript, 4pp

Draft letter from Ismay to Adm Sir Douglas Eric ('Deric') Holland Martin relating to a recent letter in The New York Times and requesting clarification information as to whether US or British warships protected convoys to the USSR during World War Two. Manuscript, 2pp

Draft letter from Ismay to Sir Norman Brook asking him to check David Guthrie's corrections relating to the episode in the memoirs concerning the SS OHIO, a US oil tanker that manged to reach Malta in a convoy in 1942. Draft typescript carbon, 1p

Letter from Ismay to L Dana Wilgress, Permanent Representative of Canada, North Atlantic Council suggesting he write to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) deputies proposing a private meeting of the Council on reorganisation of the military side of NATO. With office note by Ismay explaining that above letter was overtaken by events and hence never sent; notes [by Ismay] on the military structure of NATO discussing the lack of integration between the political and military thinking of NATO. Typescript, 5pp