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Correspondence about society memberships, 1922-1984
Societies (general), including Royal Historical Society; Historical Association; Society of Authors (including typescript copy of an article for the Daily Telegraph about VAT (Value Added Tax) on books); Harrow Association (including copy of 1922 article on the Harrow Mission), Chiropractic Association etc.
Correspondence about Jackets of Green, 1968-1972
Correspondence about Arthur Bryant's projected history of the Royal Greenjackets (Jackets of Green, 1972) with Lt-Gen Sir Richard Fyffe
Correspondence about honorary degrees, 1946-
Correspondence about honorary degrees, and related papers
Correspondence about Grillion's Club, 1951-1984
Correspondence about Grillion's Club (a political dining club, including many eminent politicians, which Arthur Bryant joined in 1951 and of which he was joint secretary for 30 years) with Arthur Bryant's manuscript history of the club
Correspondence about club memberships, 1939-1984
Correspondence and papers about membership of: a. The Confrères, 1939-
b. The Athenaeum, 1942-
c. Beefsteak Club, 1943-
d. Saintsbury Club, 1951-
e. Pratts' Club, 1956-
f. Allies' Club, to 1946
g. United Oxford & Cambridge Club, to 1948
h. Other clubs
j. Leathersellers' Company, 1960-
k. D'Oyley Carte Opera Company
Correspondence about book proposals and commissions, 1939-1970s
Miscellaneous literary correspondence. Includes many invitations to write books or articles, including biographies, business and regimental histories, or unspecified historical works; correspondence about privately commissioned works, such as AB's histories of the Port of London Authority (Liquid History, 1960) and BUPA; correspondence about his drafts of speeches for the Lord Mayor of London, c.1952-75, etc. Mainly 1939-1970s
Correspondence about appeasement, with related papers, 1938-1939
Appeasement correspondence (general), including texts of Arthur Bryant's articles for the German press, correspondence about the expulsion from England of Dr. R.G. Rösel &c
Correspondence about appeasement and war aims, with related papers, 1940
Appeasement and War Aims correspondence with Lord Brocket, Henry Drummond-Wolff, R.A. Butler and others, September 1939 - 1942, including text of Arthur Bryant's memorandum on War Aims for the under-secretary for foreign affairs. Related Material (See also BRYANT F/3a)
Correspondence about alleged BBC bias, 1938
Correspondence with the Comptroller of the BBC and his staff about the alleged political bias of current affairs programmes
Correspondence about a planned biography of FM Viscount Alanbrooke, undated
Copies of correspondence with General Sir David Fraser about a projected joint biography of Alanbrooke, and related material.
Copy text relating to Samuel Pepys, undated
Xerox copies of Pepys biographical volumes, and manuscripts of articles on Pepys and other Pepys material (mainly spin-offs from the published volumes).
Copy letters to The Times, undated
Copies of letters to The Times and other newspapers, and some editorial correspondence in connection with these
Copy correspondence, lecture lists and financial papers, 1947
Duplicates of some correspondence, lists of lectures, estimates and accounts
Congratulations upon Francis Bryant's knighthood, 1920
Letters of congratulation on Francis Morgan Bryant's knighthood
Clubs, Societies, Committees etc.
Certificates of awards, [1950-1985]
Diplomas, certificates etc. awarded to Sir Arthur Bryant, including royal grants of honours (CH and CBE) and honorary degrees (LL.B., St. Andrews and Edinburgh).
BRYANT, Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan (1899-1985)
Papers, 1877-1985, of Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant and his family. Family papers include correspondence, private and official, and diaries of his parents, (Sir) Francis Morgan and Lady Bryant, 1877-1938, and other papers, 1899-1979, including Bryant's correspondence with his parents and brother Philip. Bryant's own papers include his extensive correspondence, 1919-1985, with over 170 correspondents, among them politicians including the Rt Hon Leo Amery, Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, Sir John Buchan, R A Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, Frederick James Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton, and Margaret Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven; literary figures including Sir John Betjeman; other public figures including William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook of Beaverbrook, New Brunswick and Cherkley, Surrey, and John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith; historians including Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs of Lewes, Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton of Headington, Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier, Sir John Neale, A L Rowse, G M Trevelyan and Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton. The correspondence reflects the diversity of Bryant's interests and touches upon the development of Conservative thought and British right wing politics in the mid twentieth century, attitudes towards the Spanish Civil War in Britain, the appeasement movement of the 1930s, and, in the 1960s, the merits of Britain's entry to the Common Market and her role in the postwar world. Other papers relate to literary, political and teaching matters, including Bonar Law College, Ashridge, 1929-1946; Bryant's literary output, including fan mail, 1931-1984; diaries, notebooks, account books and letters to the press, 1916-1982; notes; proofs, pamphlets, reviews and articles by Bryant, 1929-1984; book manuscripts, 1929-1984; reviews of Bryant's works, mid 1920s-1970s; pageants, invitations and honours, 1924-1984; clubs, societies and committees, 1939-1984; film scripts, certificates, and miscellanea, 1930-1954; other papers relating to personal business and financial affairs, 1920-1985.
Bryant, Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan, 1899-1985, Knight, historical writer
Bryant family letters to Sir Francis Bryant, 1881-early 1930s
Letters to Francis Morgan Bryant from his grandfather, brothers, sister and other members of his family, together with drafts of his replies to their letters (which are often concerned with their financial troubles)