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- 1947 May 1 - Nov 23 (Creation)
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Correspondence relating to the transition of India to independence, including letter from Ismay to Gen Sir Archibald Nye's, on plans for progress towards independence; letter from Rt Hon Sir Anthony Eden to Ismay about a projected meeting; letter from Sir David John Colville, Governor of Bombay, to Ismay; letter from Jawarharlal Nehru, External Affairs Department, India, to Ismay thanking him for a letter; letter from Ismay to Nye with an account of his visit to England and subsequent progress; letter from Ismay to Sir Olaf Kirkpatrick Caroe, Governor North West Frontier Province, with regret at Caroe's departure; letter from Caroe, in reply to Ismay's letter of regret; letter from Nye, to Ismay regarding problem of the 'Secretary of State's Services'; letter from Charles Arthur to Ismay on the passing of a privileged destiny; letter from Maj George Fielding Eliot, New York Post, to Ismay on Indian defence and the Middle East; letter from Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill to V Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, regarding the Governor-Generalships of Pakistan and India to be held by Mahomed Ali Jinnah, Governor-General of Pakistan and Mountbatten; note by Ismay to Mountbatten on Governor-Generalship of India referring to FM William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, and AF Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope; letter from Ismay to Rt Hon Clement Richard Attlee, Prime Minister asking for instructions; note by Ismay to Mountbatten giving an account of meetings with opposition leaders and prime minister regarding the Governor-Generalship; letter from Miss M E Green to Rt Hon (Maurice) Harold Macmillan forwarding a copy of a letter from Churchill to Mountbatten regarding Governor-Generalships; letter from Ismay to Eliot, New York Post, in reply to his letter concerning Indian defence and the Middle East; exchange of letters between W H Morris Jones, Ismay and Harold Laski regarding the proposed appointment of Morris Jones as constitutional adviser to the Pakistan Constituent Assembly and about his present job; letter from Ismay to H M Patel with his views on the Prime Minister's secretariat; letter from Attlee to Mountbatten, offering congratulations; letter from Mountbatten, to Attlee thanking him for his letter of congratulations; letter from William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook of Beaverbrook, New Brunswick and Cherkley, to Ismay regarding relationship with Mountbatten; message of Sidney Smith's, New Delhi, India regarding Ismay and Mountbatten's relationship from A J Henderson to Arthur Christiansen, Editor of The Daily Express; letter from Mountbatten to Ismay offering thanks; letter from Edwina Cynthia Annette Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, to Ismay offering thanks; letter from Sir Eric Charles Mieville, Bombay, India to Ismay; letter from George Abell to Ismay regarding experiences on return to England, visit to the Prime Minister and press comment on Indian independence; letter from Ismay to Beaverbrook regarding relationships between Beaverbrook and Ismay, and Ismay and Beaverbrook and Mountbatten; letter from l Mountbatten, referring to the desirability of a referendum in Kashmir, India; letter from Sir George Cunningham, Governor North West Frontier Province, to Ismay regarding the position there; letter from Beaverbrook, in reply to Ismay's letter regarding relationship with Mountbatten; letter from Patel to Ismay thanking him for his letter with views on the Prime Minister's secretariat; letter from Jinnah to Ismay thanking him for a letter and for a visit; letter from Ismay to FM Sir Claude Auchinleck referring to Auchinleck's letter and proposed resignation and comparing Auchinleck's position with that of AF Alfred Ernie Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield of Ditchling, as Minister for Co-ordination of Defence, and suggesting that Ismay and Auchinleck go together; letter from Mountbatten to Auchinleck proposing his resignation; SC to Mountbatten proposing abolition of Supreme Headquarters; Ismay to Cunningham thanking him letter and with news of events and account of refugees; letter from Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to Ismay proposing meeting; letter from Nye to Ismay on Ismay's impending departure; letter from Ismay to Mounbatten proposing to depart on 15 Oct (draft?). Typescript carbon pp