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Memorandum by Sir Caspar John, First Sea Lord, R A Hunt, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, and MRAF Sir Thomas Geoffrey Pike, Chief of the Air Staff to the Rt Hon (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Minister of Defence, on Central Organisation for Defence, presented to Parliament 1958 Jul, Cmnd 476 (HMSO, London) referring to the Prime Minister's minute (3/4/118), with a note by the service Chiefs of Staff on the central organisation for defence. Photocopy signed typescript 8pp

Memorandum by D W Hellings, private secretary to the Minister of Aviation, to T J Bligh, Admiralty House with a note by the Minister of Aviation on higher defence organisation. Copy Typescript 5pp

Personal minute (M330/62) by Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister, to Rt Hon (George Edward) Peter Thorneycroft, Minister of Defence, on the central organisation for defence and with an annex on the implications of suggested reforms in defence organisation. Photocopy initialled typescript 6pp

Note by A M Bailey, Ministry of Defence, to Gen Sir Ian Jacob forwarding a note on recent discussions on tailoring strategy to resources. Copy Typescript 6pp

Record by the Cabinet Office of a meeting at Admiralty House between the Prime Minister, Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan, Minister of Defence and Minister of Aviation at which a minute (3/4/118) by the Prime Minister on Central Organisation for Defence, presented to Parliament 1958 Jul, Cmnd 476 (HMSO, London) was discussed and at which the Minister of Defence was invited to prepare a report, giving alternative methods of reorganisation, with the assistance of Gen Sir Ian Jacob and Ismay. Copy Typescript 1p

Letter from Ismay regarding vol 5, book 1 of Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's memoirs to Churchill, Denis Kelly and Miss M E Green as at 2/3/220 annotated and endorsed by Churchill and Kelly. Manuscript and typescript 2pp

Report outlining HM Treasury's interest in defence reorganisation. Copy Typescript 5pp

Copy of telegram sent from Rt Hon (Robert) Anthony Eden, Foreign Secretary to Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister regarding the role of Ismay in the Foreign Secretaries' conference Moscow, USSR, Nov 1943. Typescript, 1p

Copy of telegram to be sent by Ismay to Lt Gen Sir Frederick Morgan expressing regret at being unable to attend the launch of US Gen Dwight David Eisenhower's book, Crusade in Europe (William Heinemann, London, 1948). Typescript, 1p

Copy of telegram sent by Ismay to Dwight David Eisenhower, US President congratulating him on a speech. Typescript, 1p

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 exchange of telegrams between Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill and Ismay on Operation JUBILEE, the Dieppe raid. Copy Typescript 2pp

Corrected drafts and retypes of memoirs.

Telegram to Ismay from Adm Lord Louis Mountbatten offering congratulations (on award of the honour of CH); letter from Ismay to Mountbatten relating to Edwina Mountbatten and a possible meeting with Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, Prime Minister on prisoners of war and on the wind up of Supreme Allied Command South East Asia (SACSEA) ; papers relating to Mountbatten's command in South East Asia; letter from Ismay to Mountbatten relating to Mountbatten's return from SACSEA and his naval rank. Typescript, 9pp

Correspondence between Ismay and the Commonwealth Office concerning his war gratuity. Typescript 4pp

Correspondence regarding burglary and insurance claims, India. 7pp

Correspondence mostly congratulatory and social between Ismay and correspondents with surnames beginning with 'A' including Rev Lancelot J Allen, 1915, 1943-1961 relating to Charterhouse, Surrey with text of Allen's sermon at Charterhouse 12 Dec 1946; Rt Hon Leopold Stennet Amery, 1951 recommending his son Julian Amery for a post at the Commonwealth Relations Office; John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley, 1931, 1933, 1959 relating to India with printed memoir of Anderson reprinted from 'Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society', vol 4, Nov 1958; G Murray Andrews, 1957 relating to an appeal fund for Tewkesbury Abbey; William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, 1939 relating to the security of the Suez Canal and possible attacks by Italy, request for an Indian brigade in Egypt, latest situation in the Western Desert, North Africa during World War Two. With various papers and letters relating to Australia. 1 file

Correspondence, mostly congratulatory and social between Ismay and correspondents with surnames beginning with 'C' including A H Candlin, 1951 relating to Ismay's speech in the House of Commons on Defence; Victor Frederick William Cavendish-Bentinck, 9th Duke of Portland, 1944-1947 relating to Joint Intelligence Committee of Chiefs of Staff; R Adm William Scott Chalmers, 1940 with paper relating to situation in Narvik, Norway, 1940 and reply from Ismay; Lt Col Sir Martin Charteris, 1964 relating to a portrait sitting; Gen D de Chassey, 1957 relating to Ismay's contribution to North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO); AF Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield, 1938-1956 paying tribute to Ismay's work; FM Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode, 1936-1940 relating to work at the War Office; Captain Arthur Wellesley Clarke, 1943 relating to a recent naval engagement, visit to North Africa, meeting with ADF Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Baronet Cunningham; Sir (Geoffrey) Miles Clifford, 1964 relating to Ismay's proposed resignation from the Panel of the Leverhulme Trust Fund; Capt Clive Meysey, 1933 relating to retreat of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from Dunkirk France, 1940; John Rupert Colville, 1954-1955 relating to a television programme on Rt Hon Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill; Colin Coote, 1951-1965 relating to his retirement as Editor of The Daily Telegraph and to Churchill's declining health; Brig A T Cornwall Jones, 1945 relating to the British Joint Staff Mission, Washington DC USA and Ismay's journey; Sir Herbert (James) Creedy, 1931 relating to his retirement; Maj Gen Sir James Cubitt, 1916-1930 relating to World War One and Staff College, Camberley; Adm Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, 1943-1951 relating to NATO and Atlantic Command. With correspondence from representatives of Canada; messages of congratulation from Mayors and other representatives of the corporation of Cheltenham; correspondence relating to an obituary notice by Ismay for Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell of Oxford with Ismay's notes. 1 file

Correspondence, mostly congratulatory and social between Ismay and correspondents with surnames beginning with 'R' also including notes and thankyou letters relating to Ismay and the British Chiefs of Staffs' visit to John D Rockerfeller Jnr's Colonial Williamsburg Inc, Virginia, USA, 1943. 1 file