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Letters of congratulation to Cooper on his appointment as Permanent Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence, Mar 1976; including evaluation of his service as Permanent Under Secretary of State, Northern Ireland Office, comparison of the challenges of both roles and consideration of the difficulties awaiting at the Ministry of Defence. Correspondents include: Lord William Blease, Northern Ireland Labour Party; Frank Dunlop, Press Secretary, Fianna Fail; John Herbecq, civil servant; John Hickman, British Embassy, Dublin; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Peter Hill-Norton, North Atlantic Military Committee; Gen Sir Frank King, Commander in Chief British Army of the Rhine; Dermot Nally, Department of the Taoisigh; Donal O'Sullivan, Irish Embassy, London; Michael Palliser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; ACM Sir Geoffrey Tuttle, aerospace consultant and William Van Straubenzee, MP. 18pp.

Signed agreements for book contracts, with some related correspondence and an account book of expenses, 1943-1966. 39 items

Ironside's letters to Colonel R. Macleod. Documents and narrative, 1927-1958. Duplicated. 56 pp

Chiefly copies from originals held among the Stern personal papers collection in Kent History and Library Centre, Maidstone (ref: U1883)

The collection comprises a copy of a diary compiled by the surgeon Harold Edwards in 1939, specifically describing the emergency arrangements undertaken at King's College Hospital with the outbreak of war. Edwards was in charge of implementing these plans and the diary outlines these and the reactions and opinions of staff between September and October 1939.

Guy's Hospital College, Rules and regulations for residents, (3 copies)

Carbon copies of personal letters written from 8 Corps HQ, Home Forces in England, including those to Lt Col R G Collingwood, Maj Gen Sir Eric Girdwood, Lt Gen S F Rowell, Vice Adm A G Glennie, Lt Gen E A Osborne, Maj Gen F E Hotblack, Maj Gen Sir C B Dashwood Stettall, Gen Sir Walter Pitt-Taylor, Gen Sir Henry Jackson, Lt Gen H R S Massy, Gen Sir Ivo Vesey, Maj Gen Sir Michael O'Moore Creagh, Lt Gen Sir Philip Neame and Lt Gen Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart. 192pp

File of correspondence and memoranda relating to Stern's evidence before the Sub-Committee of Production and Supply of the House of Commons Select Committee on National Expenditure, 4 Aug 1942, including a memorandum by Stern criticising the planning and progress of tank development, together with copies of letters directed by Stern to successive Minsters of State for War and Ministers of Supply and to Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, between 1940 and 1942 and a diary account of efforts made by Stern between 1939 and the disbanding of the Special Vehicle Development Committee, Ministry of Supply in Nov 1941, to secure the design and production of a heavy tank, Jul 1942; a memorandum by Stern headed 'Reasons for failure', criticising the absence of central tank design at the Ministry of Supply, the existing production of Matilda (Mark II Infantry), Valentine (Mark III Infantry) and Churchill (Mark IV Infantry) tanks and the proposed use of the Liberty engine in the Cruiser tank, Aug 1942 and correspondence between Stern and Sir George Ernest Schuster, M P, Chairman of the Sub-Committee of Production and Supply of the House of Commons Select Committee on National Expenditure, Aug-Oct 1942.