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Typescript letter from Capt D M Macleod, Staff Officer, 1 Infantry Div to Penney, forwarding his report entitled, 'What the men are thinking'. 1p.

Typescript letter from Col J Denys P Chapman, British Army Staff, Washington, USA, to Penney, forwarding copy of the US Army's history of the Anzio landings, Anzio Beachhead. 1p.

Typescript letter from Col J Denys P Chapman, British Army Staff, Washington, USA, to Penney, on the writing of the history of the Anzio landings, Italy, by American historians. 1p.

Manuscript letter from Col G R Desmond Fitzpatrick, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, to Penney, unable to recall requested information on the Allied landings at Anzio, Italy. 1p.

Manuscript letter from Col G R Desmond Fitzpatrick, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, to Penney, stating that he would be happy to help Penney in a historical study of the Allied landings at Anzio, Italy. 1p.

Typescript letter from Col G R Desmond Fitzpatrick, Staff College, Camberley, Surrey, to Penney, giving recollections on Allied landings at Anzio, Italy, and disagreeing with comments made by Maj Gen Ernest N Harmon, Commander, 1 US Armoured Div, during Allied landings at Anzio, Italy, in articles in The Saturday Evening Post (USA), 18 Sep 1948 - 9 Oct 1948. 1p.

Typescript letter from Col G T Blunda, Superintendent, Headquarters, South East Asia, Translation and Interrogation Centre, to Penney, on Col G T Blunda's departure from Asia. 1p.

Manuscript letter from Col H J Davidson with attached copy of Blackwood's Magazine, May 1946, No 1567, Vol 259 (London, W M Dawson & Sons), discussing article in magazine entitled, 'With a casualty clearing station in Anzio', by J A R, Italy. 1 vol.

Manuscript letter from Col Patrick Cousens, forwarding photographs of 1 Infantry Div memorial tablet, All Saints Church, Rome, Italy. With photographs and negatives. 2pp.

Manuscript letter from Col William Paget ('Bunny') Careless, describing the involvement of 3 Infantry Bde in the Allied attack on Aquabona ridge, during the Allied landings at Anzio, Italy and the actions and temperament of Col Eric Dorman-Smith, Commander, 3 Infantry Bde, 1 Infantry Div. 9pp.

Manuscript letter from Ernest A V Gill, Chaplain,1 Div, to Penney, regretting Penney's departure as Commander of 1 Infantry Div. 2pp.

Typescript letter from Gen Ronald Forbes Adam, Adjutant Gen, to Penney, discussing absentees and deserters, stating that there will be no general amnesty on such actions at the end of hostilities. 1p.

Manuscript letter from Gen Sir Henry Royds Pownall, London, to Penney, forwarding draft of a chapter by Winston Spencer Leonard Churchill, on the Allied landings at Anzio, Italy. 1p.

Typescript letter [by Japanese FM Count Hisachi Terauchi] to Supreme Allied Commander, Adm Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, discussing the peace procedures, including an outline of Japanese disarmament, the treatment and contact of Allied POWs, and the suggestion of a joint Japanese and Allied post-surrender organisation, to prevent any resumption of hostilities. 2 copies. 4pp.

Typescript letter from Lt C A Bachelor, Headquarters, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia, to Penney, paying tribute to Penney's service as Director of Intelligence. 2pp.

Letter from Lt Col Mervyn E O'Gorman, Deputy Director of Mechanical Engineering, East Africa Command, Nairobi, to Penney, attaching an account of the recovery in April 1944 of a German radio controlled tank, Leichte Ladungsträger (Sd Kfz 303) (V-Motor), B.IV Goliath, in Anzio, Italy, by 1 Light Recovery Section, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 1 Infantry Div. 1p

Typescript letter from Lt Gen Allan Francis Harding, Headquarters, Allied Armies in Italy, to Penney, stating that Col Eric Dorman-Smith is being sent to command [3 Inf] Bde, under Penney's command. 1p.

Typescript letter from Lt Gen Allan Francis Harding, Headquarters, Allied Armies in Italy, to Penney, showing concern of Penney's health, and suggesting a temporary exchange with Maj Gen John Leslie Imglis Hawkesworth. 1p.

Typescript letter from Lt Gen Frederick Arthur Montgomery Browning, to Penney, including favourable comments on Penney's successor, AVM Lawrence Fleming Pendred. 1p.

Typescript letter from Lt Gen Frederick Arthur Montgomery Browning to Penney, regretting Penney's non-return to Asia. 1p.