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US Army Air Force (USAAF) Strategic Air Chart of the Northern Hemisphere, scale 1:17 750 000, compiled by US Coast and Geodetic Survey, Jun 1943.

Correspondence relating to Brooke's service as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1941-1942, including letter to Brooke from Lt Gen Arthur Nugent Floyer-Acland, Military Secretary to Secretary of State for War, 20 Nov 1941, informing him of his appointment as Chief of the Imperial General Staff; letter to Brooke from Gen Ho Ying-chin, Chinese Chief of General Staff and Minister of War, [Jul] 1942, thanking him for his message on the fifth anniversary of China's war against Japan, with covering letter from Brig Grimsdale, Military Attaché, British Embassy, Chungking, 4 Jul 1942; letter to Brooke from Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson, British Ambassador to Egypt and High Commissioner for the Sudan, 10 Dec 1942, concerning progress of operations in Egypt and Libya. With sketch by Brooke of Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, Mar 1942.

Correspondence relating to Brooke's service as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1944, notably including letter to Brooke from FM Archibald Percival Wavell, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and of Winchester, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, 4 Jul 1944, congratulating him on success of invasion of Northern France, and commenting on the organisation of South East Asia Command and on political situation in India; telegram to Brooke from Gen George Catlett Marshall, Chief of Staff of US Army, 25 Oct 1944, congratulating Brooke on handling of his recent meeting with Stalin

Correspondence relating to Brooke's service as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1945-1946, including letter from Gen Cheng Chien, Acting Chief of Staff, Chinese National Military Council to Maj Gen E C Hayes, General Officer Commanding, British Military Mission, Chungking, 8 May 1945, asking him to send a telegram to Brooke congratulating British forces on victory in Europe, with copy of Brooke's reply to Gen Cheng Chien, 15 May 1945; note to Brooke from Gen Sir Hastings Lionel Ismay, Chief of Staff to Minister of Defence, 28 Aug 1945, enclosing two tables of statistics relating to numbers of Chiefs of Staff Committee meetings held during World War Two, 1939-1945; letters from Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, 1945-1946, notably concerning Brooke's continuation as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 1945, and his support of the evacuation of British troops from Egypt, 1946.

Letters of appreciation and congratulation sent to Brooke, including letters of appreciation from Maj Gen Sir Bernard Charles Tolver Paget and Lt Gen (Arthur) Edward Grasett, 1942; letter from US Adm Harold Raynsford Stark, Commander, US Naval Forces in Europe, 6 Nov 1942, congratulating him on success of operations in Egypt; letters of congratulation on award of GCB, Nov 1942; letter to Brooke from H E Burton, 20 Sep 1943, reminiscing about their service together in 50 Northumbrian Div, [1920-1923].

Letters and telegrams to Brooke and his wife Benita Blanche Brooke, congratulating Brooke on his promotion to Field Marshal.

Letters of appreciation and congratulation sent to Brooke, including letter from FM William (Riddell) Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood of Anzac and of Totnes, 18 Jun [1944], congratulating him on the success of the Normandy landings; letters to Brooke from Birdwood and Maj-Gen Ernest Ord Lewin, 4 Aug 1944, expressing pleasure at public praise of Brooke by Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister; letters of congratulation on end of war in Europe, May 1945.

Letters and telegrams to Brooke congratulating him on his elevation to the peerage, Aug 1945, including letter from Adm Hon Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, 12 Aug 1945, enclosing 'Atomic reflections', typescript text by Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax on implications of development of atomic bombs. With letter to Brooke from Rt Hon Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, Prime Minister, 8 Aug 1945, asking him whether he may recommend Brooke for elevation to the peerage in his resignation honours list.

Copies of letters to Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant from friends, colleagues and members of the public, commenting on his book The turn of the tide (Collins, London, 1957), including letters from Rev Canon Gilbert David Barker, Rt Rev Monsignor John Mackintosh Tilney Barton, Arthur W Bell, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, James Gomer Berry, 1st Baron Kemsley, Sir Norman Brook, Lt Gen Sir Frederick Arthur Montague Browning, Rt Hon Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, Rt Hon Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, John Norman Daynes, Brig Thomas Francis Vere Foster, Gen Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, Gen Bernard Freyburg, 1st Baron Freyburg, Gen Sir Hubert (de la Poer) Gough, Col Francis R Govett, Cyril Hartmann, MRAF Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Gen Hastings Lionel Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Marian C Long, Cdr Tony Marten, Gen Sir William Duthie Morgan, AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Lt Gen Sir Archibald (Edward) Nye, Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor, Sir Edward Wilder Playfair, Sir Leslie Roberts, Thomas Godfrey Polson Corbett Rowallan, 2nd Baron Rowallan, Alfred Leslie Rowse, Very Rev Edward Gordon Selwyn, Lady Katherine Seymour, John Hugh Smith, Mary Soames (née Churchill), Christopher Hugh Sykes, FM Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, George Macauley Trevelyan, Maj Gen George Guy Waterhouse, John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennet and E G Harcourt Williams.

Copies of letters to Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant from friends and associates, commenting on his book Triumph in the West (Collins, London, 1959), including letters from Guy [Holford] Benson, Rt Hon John James Lawson, 1st Baron Lawson, Gen Sir William Duthie Morgan, Lt Gen Sir Archibald (Edward) Nye and Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor.

Letters to Brooke from Archibald John Arthur Wavell, 2nd Earl Wavell, 1952-1953, enclosing typescript copies of semi-official and personal letters from Brooke to FM Archibald Percival Wavell, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and of Winchester, 16 Jan 1938-15 Jun 1946, notably concerning organisation and training of Mobile Div, 1938, his attempts to ensure coordination of ground and air operations, 1942, possible start date for Operation ANAKIM, Burma, progress of operations in North West Europe, Aug 1944-Jan 1945, his visit to Moscow, [Oct 1944], disagreements between British and US Chiefs of Staff, 1944, food shortages in India, 1944, and his attendance at the Yalta Conference, Feb 1945; typescript copies of letters from Brooke, Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, to Sir John Greer Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, 31 Oct-7 Nov 1941, mainly concerning command changes in Home Forces; typescript copy of anonymous letter to Wavell, [Sep 1942], expressing a lack of faith in British political and military leaders, with typescript copies of Wavell's reply, 11 Sep 1942; typescript copies of parodic poems on topical subjects by Wavell, [1943-1948].

Typescript copies of letters from Brooke to Maj Nigel (Woodford) Aitken, 1940-1945, and to Basil (Stanlake) Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, and his wife Cynthia Brooke, 1940-1954.

Typescript copy of letter from Brooke to Maj Nigel (Woodford) Aitken, 9 Jul 1943, describing his first meeting with US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Typescript copies of letters from Brooke to his mother, Alice Brooke, 1 Jan 1913-31 Dec 1915, [made by Marian C Long, research assistant to the Royal Regiment of Artillery and Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, 1954].

Typescript copies of letters from Brooke to his mother, Alice Brooke, 8 Dec 1906-27 Dec 1907, [made by Marian C Long, research assistant to the Royal Regiment of Artillery and Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, 1954].