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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].

Typescript copies of letters from Brooke to his mother, Alice Brooke, 6 Jan 1908-3 Jan 1911, [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, 5 Jan 1911-31 Dec 1912, [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, 3 Jan 1916-18 Jul 1920, [made by Marian C Long, research assistant to the Royal Regiment of Artillery and Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant, 1954].

Copies of letters of condolence received by Mrs. McClare.

File containing photocopies of letters written to Chater by Robert Laycock, Combined Operation Headquarters, Gen Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, General Officer Commanding India and Vice Admiral Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, relating to Chater's service with Combined Operations, South-East Asia and India. 4pp.

Copy letters from Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Richard Wood, Minister for Overseas Development, to Gen Geoffrey Kemp Bourne, 1st Baron Bourne of Atherstone, relating to British aid to South Vietnam. Also covering letter from Bourne to Menaul.

Photocopies of letters received by Hamilton from Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, comprising undated letter from India regarding Churchill's plans to see active service in Egypt and publication of his The story of the Malakand Field Force (Longmans and Co, London, 1898); letter, 16 Sep, with Churchill's account of his part in the battle of Omdurman, Second Sudan Campaign, 2 Sep 1898. 1 file, 2 letters [Both letters reprinted in Hamilton's Listening for the drums (Faber and Faber, London, 1944)]

Copies of letters to The Times and other newspapers, and some editorial correspondence in connection with these

Manuscript copy of seven letters from a lieutenant (name not supplied) of 4 Bn The Lincolnshire Regt, to his acting adjutant, regarding his request for posting to active service in Egypt. 4pp

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

Letters of discussion and controversy', carbon copies of letters including to Lt Gen Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, on Liddell Hart's obituary notice in the Daily Telegraph for FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, 31 Jan 1928; Maj Gen Archibald Percival Wavell, including Wavell's review of Liddell Hart's The war in outline 1914-1918 (Faber and Faber, London, 1936) in The Times, Jul 1936; FM Sir Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 7th Baronet, on bombing of villages on the North-West Frontier, India, 1932-1933. 1 file

Carbon copies of 'Some special letters', mainly letters of appreciation and accolades, including from Gen Douglas MacArthur on Great captains unveiled (W Blackwood and Sons, London, 1927), 12 Nov 1959; Adm Charles Brown, on Deterrent and defence (Stevens and Sons, London, 1960), 6 Sep 1960; FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 1 Nov 1964, on definitions of strategy and tactics. 1 file

Copies of personal letters from John Greer Dill to Sir Archibald Percival Wavell with list of contents. Copies were made by Wavell's son and sent to Lady Dill. 17 items. 67pp.

Letters of discussion and controversy', carbon copies of letters including to George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester, on control of the atom bomb, 19 Feb 1948; FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, on the growth of 'tophamper', staff officers at the War Office, Sep 1948; Maj Gen Harold English Pyman on National Service, 22 Dec 1949. 1 file

Letters of discussion and controversy', carbon copies of letters including to Michael Howard, commenting on Howard's draft paper on disengagement, 3 Apr 1958; Rt Hon Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell, MP, on the hydrogen bomb, 12 Dec 1954; Robert Ranke Graves, on the play Ross, relating to Thomas Edward Shaw, 21 Oct 1959. 1 file

Typescript photocopies of letters to Maj Gen Stanley Woodburn Kirby, Historical Section Cabinet Office, from Maj Gen David Tennant Cowan and Maj Gen Henry Lowrie Davies, relating to Hutton's role in events leading to the fall of Rangoon, Burma, to Japanese forces; also typescript photocopy of notes of an interview between Gen Kirby and Colonel Ogrill, 1 Dec 1955, discussing the demolition of the Sittang Bridge, Burma, by 17 Indian Div, 23 Feb 1942. 5pp.

Letters of discussion', carbon copies of letters including to Maj John North on the battle in 1942 for Alam Halfa, 20 Mar 1961; Professor Alan John Percivale Taylor, commenting on Taylor's televised lectures on World War One, 20 Mar 1961; Alan Clark, commenting on his book The Donkeys (Hutchinson, London, 1961), 22 Jun 1961; Robert Ranke Graves, on cuts made to contributions by Graves and Liddell Hart to a BBC television documentary on FM Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Jun-Jul 1961. 1 file

Letters of discussion', carbon copies of letters including to Terence (Mervyn) Rattigan, on the film 'Lawrence of Arabia', 7 Dec 1962; to Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, MP, on attitudes to air raids on Germany during World War Two, 15 May 1963; to Barbara Tuchman, on the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 19 Dec 1963. With list of questions to be put to Gen Lauris Norstad, Supreme Commander, SHAPE, at Oxford, 4 Oct 1962 and letter from Maj Gen Sahibzada Yaqub Khan, Commandant of the Staff College, Quetta, to FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, commenting on the Senior Officers' Course, 5 Oct 1964. 1 file