Copy extracts from Chiefs of Staff meeting papers, Dec 1942, relating to the Dieppe Raid, France
Papers used for research for Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's memoirs relating to the Dieppe Raid, Allied attack on Dieppe France, 1942, consisting of Extract from Chiefs of Staff (42) 353rd meeting on withholding of advance information of raid and explanation by AF Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Copy Typescript 1p
Copy extracts from Chiefs of Staff meeting papers, Jul 1942, relating to the Dieppe Raid, France
Papers used for research for Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's memoirs relating to the Dieppe Raid, Allied attack on Dieppe, France, 1942, consisting of extract from Chiefs of Staff (42) 64th meeting, AF Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Chief Commanding Officer, at the time of the postponement of Operation RUTTER (the original name for Operation JUBILEE the Dieppe raid plan). Copy typescript 1p
Covering letter from Norman Craven Brook to Rt Hon (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Minister of Defence and reports on defence reorganisation consisting of memorandum by Norman Brook to Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister and reports by the secretary of the cabinet entitled 'Central organisation for defence'; and 'Defence organisation: integration on a functional basis'. Photocopy typescript carbon 26pp
Copy of letter written by Ismay to FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief India relating to Ismay's appointment as Chief of Staff to Viceroy of India (VA Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma) and his intention to have little involvement with military matters. Typescript, 2pp
Copy letter from Ismay to General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Dec 1944, about the progress of the war
[Copy of] letter written by Ismay to Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief India relating to lack of progress in the war; recent Allied conferences; visit to the liberated Paris, France; US resources going to the Pacific area at the expense of the struggle against Germany. Typescript, 4pp
Copy letter from Ismay to General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Feb 1944, about Lord Mountbatten
Copy of letter written by Ismay to Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief India relating to V Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia with regards to staff and publicity; Ismay's attendance at conferences throughout 1943. Typescript, 3pp
Copy of letter written by Ismay to Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief India relating to the difficulties associated with greater numbers of allies; visit to Normandy, France and his impressions of 'Mulberry' floating harbours; V1 and V2 weapons; the difficulty of defeating Japan; post war reconstruction plans for UK. Typescript, 3pp
Copy letter from Ismay to Winston Churchill, Dec 1942, about the Dieppe Raid, France
Papers used for research for Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's memoirs relating to the Dieppe Raid, Allied attack on Dieppe France, 1942, consisting of letter from Ismay to Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister, replying to 2/3/244 with annotation by Churchill as to enemy strength. Copy typescript carbon 3pp
Letter from FM John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton, to Rt Hon (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Minister of Defence, in which he expresses agreement with MRAF Sir John Cotesworth Slessor's comments on defence reorganisation. With letter from Thorneycroft to Harding acknowledging receipt of his letter. Copy Typescript 2pp
Letter from MRAF Sir John Cotesworth Slessor to Rt Hon (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Minister of Defence on defence reorganisation. Reply by Thorneycroft acknowledging receipt of letter. Copy typescript 4pp
Covering letter from Rt Hon (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Minister of Defence to the Prime Minister forwarding a memorandum by the Chief of Defence Staff to the Minister suggesting a non-party basis for its establishment and a memorandum by the Chief of Defence Staff on the central organisation for defence, and with the Minister's comments on centralisation. Copy Typescript 22pp
Copy of letter from Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill to AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes relating to a previous letter from Keyes protesting about (unspecified) orders from the Defence Committee. Typescript, 1p
Copy of letter from Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill to AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, Director of Combined Operations informing him of his removal from this post and his replacement by Commodore Louis Mountbatten; copy of official note of termination of appointment. With letter and note to Ismay from T L Rowan forwarding copy of letter from Churchill to Keyes
Copy of letter from R Adm Ronald Vernon Brockman to Vappala Pangunni Menon giving his opinion of Leonard Oswald Mosley's The Last Days of the British Raj (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1962). Typescript, 2pp
Copy letter (incomplete) from Admiral Sir James Somerville to Ismay, Dec 1943, about staff at SEAC
Extract from letter to Ismay from Adm Sir James Fownes Somerville relating to the proliferation of staff at South East Asia Command (SEAC) and Adm Louis Mountbatten's command. Typescript, 2pp
Copy letter of thanks from Ismay to Lord Mountbatten, Jan 1963, about defence reorganisation
Letter from Ismay to AF Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Chief of Defence Staff, thanking him for his letter (3/4/68) requesting advice on the problem of defence reorganisation. Photocopy manuscript 2pp
Copy letter of thanks from Ismay to President Dwight D Eisenhower, Jan 1956
Copy of letter from Ismay to Dwight David Eisenhower, US President thanking him for the gift of a painting and referring to Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. Typescript, 1p
Copy letters between Ayub Bakhsh Awan and M J Moynihan, Dec 1955, about a 1904 article on the Punjab
Exchange of letters from Ayub Bakhsh Awan, Parliamentary Private Secretary, Lahore, Pakistan and M J Moynihan, Deputy UK High Commissioner, Peshawar, Pakistan regarding an article from Blackwood's magazine 1904, of Col G K Scott-Moncrieff's Punjab frontier recollections with descriptions of Abbottabad, Pakistan; Gen Sir James Browne; Mardan, Pakistan; Walter Hamilton and Harry Hughes; Wigram Battye Kabul expedition 1879; Gen Sir Charles MacGregor and Gen Sir Aeneas Perkins; Bannu or Edwardesabad, Pakistan; Sir Herbert Edwardes, a Pathan native officer; Gen Sir John M'Queen and Gen Sir Neville Chamberlain. Copy duplicated 20pp
Letters exchanged between Ismay and AF Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, concerning Odhams' offers on publication of his memoirs. Copy typescript, 1p
Copies of letter from former Secretary to the Government of India Vapal (Vappala) Pangunni Menon to Henry Vincent Hodson and Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, relating to his desire for Hodson to write the book on the transfer of power in India. Typescript, 2pp