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Copies of Capt Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart's correspondence and memoranda on various subjects including FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and the campaigns in the Western Desert, 1942; Berlin and Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev, 1961; FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig. With extracts from Liddell Hart's memoirs. 1 file
Typescript photocopies of letters and reports certified as true copies by Hutton, 10 Jan 1955, from Maj Gen John George Smyth, General Officer Commanding 17 Indian Div, to Hutton and Brig Henry Lowrie Davies, Brig General Staff, Burma Army, relating to Maj Gen John George Smyth's role as General Officer Commanding 17 Indian Div in the operations leading to the fall of Rangoon, Burma. 13pp.
Copy letters and telegrams sent by Hunter as GOC 10 Division, South Africa, May-Jun 1900
Letter book of Lt Gen Sir Archibald Hunter, General Officer Commanding 10 Div, South African Field Force, containing carbon copies of letters and telegrams from Hunter with some incoming telegrams, including letter to Maj Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Chief of Staff, notifying him of officers who rendered valuable service to the transport logistics of the flying column of Brig Gen Bryan Thomas Mahon, 22 May; telegram to Maj Gen Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell at Mafeking, requesting release of Mahon's transport to assist in protection of railways, 26 May; letter to Kitchener, 7 Jun, enclosing report by Mahon, 23 May, on the operations and progress of his flying column from Barkly West to relieve Mafeking, 4-17 May; letter from Hunter to commander of Boer forces in Krugersdorp, Transvaal, demanding the surrender of his troops and the town, 18 Jun. 1 vol
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 correspondence between Montgomery, Cdr 8 Div and Haining, including Montgomery's suggestions for the regrouping of brigades in his division and Haining's comments. 8pp
Copy letters by Foulkes from India, 1919, including accounts of his journeys
Notebook of copy letters sent from India, many to a Mr Bartholomew, concerning the development of photographs. With description of the Peshawar region and weather and topography of North West Frontier Province. Accounts of railway journeys in Aug from Quetta to Chaman, a military cantonment; Nushki, near the Afghan border; and Hindubagh, a military outpost and important for supply of chrome iron. Account of the Bannu region and Tochi expedition, including methods of attack and defence; description of Datta Khel camp and bombing of the Maliks. 1 vol
Typed copies of Hamilton's weekly letters, as General Officer Commanding Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, to FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, Secretary of State for War, reporting progress of the Dardanelles Campaign, including the Allied naval bombardment of the Straits forts, 18 Mar; Hamilton's account of the first landings at V Beach, W Beach and ANZAC, 30 Apr; his anxieties over the leadership and morale of the French Corps Expéditionnaire d'Orient, 5 May; his shortage of artillery ammunition, and his requesting Kitchener to inspect operations at Gallipoli in person, 21 May; his account of the Suvla Bay landings, 11 Aug; his concerns over the transfer of troops from Gallipoli to Salonika, 29 Sep; his request to be re-employed following his recall to London, 13 Nov. 1 file, 38 letters
Papers of A J Lewis: copy letters from Aubrey Lewis to [Daniel] O'Brien and Dr [Alan] Gregg, Rockefeller foundation, relating to the internment of Eric Guttman, German émigré and Rockefeller funded researcher at Mill Hill Emergency Hospital
Copy letters from Aubrey Lewis to Daniel O'Brien, Assistant Director of Medical Services, Rockefeller Foundation, and Dr [Alan] Gregg, Director of the Medical Sciences Programme of the Rockefeller Foundation, relating to the internment of Eric Guttman, German émigré and Rockefeller funded researcher at Mill Hill Emergency Hospital, and whether the Rockefeller would continue to fund him to undertake research at a different hospital.
Photocopies of letters sent by Hamilton to his father Col Christian Vereker Monteith Hamilton and his brother Vereker Monteith Hamilton, relating to his progress up the River Nile with 1st Bn The Gordon Highlanders, First Sudan Expedition, 29 Nov 1884-6 Feb 1885. With manuscript letter from Vereker and his wife Lilian, regarding Hamilton's proposal of marriage to Jean Miller Muir, and Hamilton's Icarus (Vizetelly's one volume novels, Vol 18, 1886), 14 Sep 1886. 1 file, 7 letters
Typed copies of two letters from Hamilton to Maj Gen Frederick Hammersley, acknowleding receipt of Hammersley's report on operations of 11 (Northern) Div, 30 Jun 1915-23 Aug 1915, and informing Hammersley of the refusal of the British Government to publish documents collated by Hamilton pertaining to the Gallipoli Campaign. 2pp
Photocopies of letters from Hamilton to (Henry) Spenser Wilkinson, military historian and author, relating to the Second Boer War, including Hamilton's allegations of military incompetence against Gen Sir Redvers Henry Buller, General Officer Commanding Natal Army, 8 and 16 Mar 1900; on his stay at the house of Cecil (John) Rhodes, and the hatred between Boers and British colonial South Africans, 26 Mar 1900; his proposals to decentralize the administration of Lt Gen Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum and Aspall, Commander in Chief South Africa, and improve standards of British musketry, 11 Nov 1901; his account of the battle of Rooiwal, Western Transvaal, 19 Apr 1902; on the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging, 31 May 1902. With copy of Kitchener's account of the last drive against the Boers in Western Transvaal, 7-11 May 1902 and Hamilton's orders issued to his columns for the advance towards Vryburg, 6 May 1902. 1 file, 10 letters
Photocopies of letters from Hamilton to (Henry) Spenser Wilkinson, including Hamilton's admission of being insufficiently frank in his communications with FM Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum and Broome, during the Dardanelles Expedition, 27 May 1921. 1 file, 4 letters
Photocopies of letters sent by Hamilton to Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill MP, relating to the Second Boer War, including Hamilton's proposals for making peace terms with the Boers, 20 Jan 1902; recommending that Churchill should not come to South Africa as a journalist, 23 Mar 1902; the negotiations taking place prior to the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging, 31 May 1902. With letter from Churchill to Hamilton, regarding Churchill's admiration for Boer leaders, and condemning suggestions that British officers should be tried by courts martial for defeats suffered during the war, 25 Jun 1902. 1 file, 13 letters (Letters of 22 Mar and 25 Jun 1902 are originals, remainder are photocopies of originals held by Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge)
Carbon copy letterbook, comprising manuscript letters from Hamilton to Rt Hon William St John Fremantle Brodrick, Secretary of State for India, ending their friendship and refuting Brodrick's allegations that Hamilton was disloyal to FM Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts of Kandahar, Waterford and Pretoria, and to Brodrick as Secretary of State for War, and that Hamilton disclosed information to the press through Leopold Stennett Amery, journalist of The Times, 1 May; to Brodrick, further defending himself from Brodrick's allegations, 3 Aug; to Rt Hon Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster MP, Secretary of State for War, suggesting that expenditure on the Militia should be restricted or the force should be radically changed, and that reform of the Volunteers should be delayed until after reform of the Regulars and Militia was completed, 17 Oct. 1 vol
Copy letters from Johnston to his parents, 1934-1936
Typescript transcripts by Mrs Sherrie Price of Charles (Hepburn) Johnston's letters to his parents Jan 1934 - Mar 1936.
Photocopies of letters from Tom Wintringham to his wife Elizabeth (née Arkwright) during his time in prison for sedition. 7 items.
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
Copy letters from Wilkins to Roy Markham, 1950-1951
Photocopy letters from Wilkins to Roy Markham, Plant Virus Research Unit,Cambridge, detailing Wilkins’ research on X-ray diffraction images of nucleic acid and requesting further supplies of nucleic acid from Tobacco Mosaic Virus, prepared by Markham’s Unit. Quality of some photocopy images is poor
Copy letters home from Edgar Wilkins, New Zealand, to his mother, 1913-1915 and 1921
Typescript copies of letters from Edgar Henry Wilkins (Wilkins’ father), New Zealand, to Mary Hutton Wilkins (Wilkins’ paternal grandmother), chiefly personal and domestic, including descriptions of Maurice Wilkins as a small child. Also sketch map of the area surrounding Wellington, New Zealand; sketch plan of 30, Kelburn Parade, Wellington, New Zealand (the residence of the Wilkins family until 1923); typescript text describing Pongaroa, New Zealand; all probably by Edgar Wilkins