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Papers relating to his life and career, 1917-1963, principally comprising official correspondence with Lt Gen M Brocas Burrows, British Military Mission, Moscow, 1944-1945, Gen Mark Wayne Clark, US Army, 1943-1944, 1951-1952, Maj Gen Richard Henry Dewing, UK Army and RAF Liaison Staff, Australia, 1943-1944, Maj Gen Gordon Edward Grimsdale, Military Attaché andhead of Military Mission to Chungking, China, 1942-1943, AF Sir Roger John Brownlow Keyes, Bt, Director of Combined Operations, War Office, 1940-1942, Lt Gen Sir Henry Pownall, South East Asia Command HQ, 1944-1945, Lt Gen Sir Harold Redman, British Joint Staff Mission, Washington DC, 1943-1944, AF Sir James Somerville, Commander-in-Chief Eastern Fleet, 1943-1947, and Maj Gen Sir Edward Spears, Minister to the Lebanon, 1940-1944, and Lt Gen Albert C Wedemeyer, US Army, Deputy Chief of Staff; South East Asia Command, 1944; personal correspondence with and about FM Lord Alanbrooke, 1946-1947, 1957-1963, FM Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 1941-1961, and FM Archibald Percival Wavell, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and of Winchester, 1943-1946; official andpersonal correspondence with Dwight David Eisenhower, 1942-1965, and AF Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1943-1954, 1960-1964; correspondence with publishers and colleagues, including Gen Sir Richard Nugent O'Connor; papers relating to India, 1947-1951, including his correspondence as Chief of Staff to Mountbatten, 1947, notes on interviews with Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahomed Ali Jinnah, 1947, letters describing the political situation in India, 1947-1948, and correspondence concerning compensation for Indian Government servants, 1948-1951; correspondence concerning the proposed defence reorganisation, 1955-1963; papers relating to his service as Secretary General, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), 1952-1957, including his official progress reports, 1952-1956; newspaper cuttings, statements to the press and texts of speeches and broadcasts, 1952-1957; papers relating to his memoirs, [1940-1960] including correspondence with publishers, 1960-1961, and colleagues, 1957-1960, notebooks, 1940-1960, and drafts and proofs, [1960]. newspaper cuttings, 1943, 1948, 1951-1952, 1957; texts of speeches, 1943-1958; correspondence relating to operations in Somaliland, 1917-1920; notes and papers relating to his studies at Staff College, Quetta and RAF Staff College, 1922-1924. Papers relating to Rt Hon Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill, 1940-1965, including personal correspondence with Churchill, 1940, 1943-1945, 1947-1964; correspondence relating to Churchill's memoir The Second World War (Cassell, London, 1948-1954), 1946-1956, including correspondence relating to Dieppe Raid, Aug 1942, dated 1950, and galley proofs, [1948-1954]. Printed material, 1941-1945, 1947, 1951, notably including copies of telegrams sent by Winston Churchill as Prime Minister, 1941-1942; minutes of Chiefs of Staff meetings, 1943-1944; minutes of Combined Chiefs of Staff meetings, 1943, 1945.

Letter from Stanley Ismay, Nagpur, India to Dorothy [Ismay] with family news. Manuscript, 4pp

Report from Gerald S Davies, Charterhouse, Godalming, Surrey to [Stanley] Ismay on Ismay's character and progress as school. Manuscript, 14pp

Map by Lt Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart of Coronation Durbar army camp, Delhi, India. Printed 1p

Regimental orders concerning Lt Hastings Lionel Ismay, Adjutant, 21 Cavalry (Frontier Force), Jhelum, India, including his appointment as adjutant to Capt Oswald Muirhead Dyke. Printed, 2pp

Letter from adjutant PAVO 'Tommy' to Ismay referring to Ismay's acceptance of Somaliland posting. Manuscript, 2pp

Telegram from adjutant 22 Cavalry, Jhelum, India to Ismay concerning Ismay's acceptance of Somaliland posting. Manuscript carbon, 2pp

Regimental orders of 21 Cavalry, Jhelum, India concerning, respectively, Ismay's Somaliland posting and his promotion to Capt. Printed, 3pp

Letter from Robert McCleverty, 47 Sikhs, to Ismay concerning failure of possibility of Canal Police appointment for Ismay. Manuscript, 2pp

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

Letter from Terence Mullaly, 6 Gurkha Rifles, Kakul near Abbottabad, India North West Frontier to Ismay thanking him for a letter of sympathy on his brother's death. Manuscript, 8pp

Letter to Ismay from Lt Milo Richard Beaumont Onslow, 21 Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry, attached to 33 Cavalry Indian Expeditionary Force D, describing operations and terrain in Mesopotamia. Manuscript, 10pp

Letter from Cecil John Lyons Allanson, Gurkha Rifles, London to Ismay mentioning the failure of the Dardanelles campaign, Feb 1915 and his own wounding. Manuscript, 4pp

Letter to Ismay from Lt Milo Richard Beaumont Onslow, 21 Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry, attached to 33 Cavalry Indian Expeditionary Force D, relating to recovery from wound and describing operations in Mesopotamia. Manuscript, 6pp

Letter from Eric Dobs at Western Front to Ismay concerning life in the trenches. Manuscript, 1p

Letter from Cecil John Lyons Allanson, Gurkha Rifles, Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, to Ismay with an account of Dardanelles fighting. Manuscript, 2pp

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

Lt Milo Richard Beaumont Onslow, 21 Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry, attached to 33 Cavalry Indian Expeditionary Force D, relating to an operation to remove bullets; news of Laura Kathleen Ismay.

Letter from Ismay to his mother from SS Kashgar referring to a Royal Flying Corps general. Manuscript, 3pp

Letter from Ismay to his mother from United Service Club, London concerning visit to Central Signalling School, Bedfordshire. 4pp