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Illustrated London News articles, 1940s - 1960s: typed fair copies and proofs, with a few whole issues. 3 boxes

Proofs of Unfinished victory (Macmillan, London, 1940), including textual amendments, 1939. 2 boxes

Proofs of Triumph in the West, 1943-1946. Based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke (Collins, London, 1959), with brief notes by FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough, and by FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and Hindhead. 1 box

Proofs of King Charles II (Longmans, London, 1931), with critical notes by Edmund Blunden. 1 box

Proofs of Observer and other newspaper articles; of The political speeches of Neville Chamberlain, and other works with prefaces by Arthur Bryant. 1 box

Printed copies of newspaper articles and reviews by Arthur Bryant, 1931-1984. 4 boxes

General newspaper material

Assorted newspaper material on the Abdication crisis, Rhodesia, South Africa etc.

Newspaper material on bureaucracy, airports, agriculture etc.

Further newspaper material

General newspaper material, including reviews of Makers of the Realm, The Medieval Foundation, Protestant Island, The Great Duke etc.

Newspaper and other material

Newspaper and pamphlet material on the Common Market and North Atlantic Free Trade

Various photographs (including those intended as illustrations for books). Printed notices of lectures by Arthur Bryant. Services Christmas cards, 1940-45. Cassette of Silver Jubilee service, 1977, presented to Arthur Bryant. Letters of condolence to Lady Bryant and Pamela McCormick on Arthur Bryant's death, and service sheet from his Memorial Service

Further correspondence with chartered accountants. Some correspondence with chartered surveyors and insurance agents, various dates.

Correspondence with the Midland Bank; statements (including NBA account); correspondence with stockbrokers from 1933

Drama, Films etc.:

a. Scripts of Passing By, an unfinished Peter Warlock opera or musical play based on traditional songs collected by Arthur Bryant, adapted by Alfred Chenhalls (see E/50), in numerous manuscript and typescript versions, some clearly by Arthur Bryant, c. 1937-38

b. Two typescripts of The English Opera by Matthew Locke (17th cent)

c. Various manuscript and typescript copies of All in a Garden Green - a Restoral (sic) Pastoral, probably c.1930

d. Programmes of Pan and the Young Shepherd (1925) and The Countess Cathleen (1926), acted at King's Beeches, Sunning-hill as an amateur production including Arthur Bryant, Sylvia Bryant and Philip Bryant

e. Typed notes for a film scenario based on the Napoleonic War

f. Duplicated typescripts of two radio productions: England, a programme for St. George's Day, 1939, devised by Arthur Bryant and Stanford Robinson, and A Tower Unto Heaven, by Robin Whitworth assisted by Arthur Bryant, 1946

g. Manuscript and typescript versions of The King's Escape, an apparently unperformed radio play about Charles II by Arthur Bryant

h. Manuscript and typescript versions of Ninety Sail by William Lipscomb, a play based on Arthur Bryant's biography of Pepys, with notes and script in Arthur Bryant's hand and correspondence with Lipscomb, 1934-38

i. Correspondence about projected films with Charles Laughton and others, 1937-54.

Box of miscellaneous papers mainly connected with ceremonial occasions, including invitations to coronations, royal funerals, thanksgiving services, garden parties etc.; printed orders issued to Francis Morgan Bryant as Serjeant-at-Arms and Registrar of the Royal Victorian Order, establishment lists; certificates under sign manual; invitations to city livery and other dinners, theatre programmes, etc.