The Papers of Leopold Amery

Correspondence with the princes and their father, Prince Hassan, former Crown Prince, on subjects including: the stoppage of their allowance from the Nizam of Hyderabad; Hossein's joining the Royal Navy and the possibility of working for the Ministry of Agriculture and finding work in Canada; Hamid's joining the Navy; Hassan's intention to visit Canada.

Other correspondents include: Sir Chintaman Deshmukh, Minister of Finance, Government of India; 5th Lord Salisbury [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 1952, earlier Lord Cranborne]; Desmond Crawley, Principal Private Secretary to Salisbury; Sir Paul Patrick [Assistant Under-Secretary of State, India Office]; Charles Herbert, Indian Political Department; Kenneth East, Private Secretary, India Office (2); Sir Alexander Cadogan [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs] on the difficulty of receiving the princes at the Foreign Office; Arthur Thesiger (2); Sir Reader Bullard [British Ambassador to Iran] on the Iranian Government's attitude to the princes and the unlikely chance of their succeeding to the throne; A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty] (6); Robert Hudson [Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries]; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] on subjects including advising against Sir Reader Bullard seeing Prince Hassan and the proposed allowance for the princes from the Nizam of Hyderabad (3); Belle Rennie on helping the princes (16); 2nd Lord Cromer [Lord Chamberlain, earlier Lord Errington] on the Foreign Office's advice that the princes should not be invited to Court functions; 2nd Lord Melchett [earlier Henry Mond], Imperial Chemical Industries Limited [ICI]; Sir Reginald Glancy [Adviser to Secretary of State for India] on asking Sir Akbar Hydari [President, Hyderabad State Executive Council] to help the princes (7); Richard Crofton [Director-General of Revenue, Hyderabad] (2); Robert Boutflour, Principal of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester [Gloucestershire], on Hossein's training (3); Sir Akbar Hydari (2).