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1	General family and personal
2	Mountaineering
3	Florence Amery
4	Harold and Geoffrey Amery

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The Papers of Leopold Amery

Title	Florence Amery
Reference	AMEL 6/3
Covering Dates	1904–1976
Extent and Medium	46 archive boxes

Content and context

This series is particularly notable for the correspondence between LSA and his wife [Adeliza] Florence Amery, or AFA (earlier Florence Greenwood). They wrote to each other virtually every day when they were apart, for instance during the First World War, LSA's absences on political business or AFA's trips into the country for her health. These letters cover a wide range, very often expressing the Amerys' affection for each other and discussing family matters, but also covering LSA's political life and his intelligence work in France and the Balkans, 1914-18. There is also a large amount of general correspondence, including letters to AFA from friends (and many of LSA's political colleagues) and various members of the Greenwood family. Other material includes AFA's diaries (often including loose letters, bills, ephemera etc), her writings and files on her work as chairman of the Indian Comforts Fund during the Second World War.

Index Terms

Amery, Adeliza Florence Hamar Greenwood (1881-1975) wife of Leopold Amery

Churchill/AMEL 6/3 contains:

Book of handwritten quotations and letters.
2 files.

Oct 1885-Jun 1911

Housekeeping. Book of household accounts and wages, with additional letters and notes, mainly from household staff, particularly on hiring a maid, and also including a letter from Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams.
2 files.

Dec 1911-Sep 1926

Linen book.
1 file.

1912–1926

AFA private diary. Includes letters, poems etc.
2 files.

Sep 1909-Dec 1910

AFA private diary. Includes loose letters.
2 files.

Jan 1910-Apr 1910

AFA private diary. Includes loose letters, poems etc.
2 files; Fragile..

Aug 1910-Jun 1911

AFA private diary. Includes loose letters, journal entries, orders of service etc on subjects including the deaths of George Wyndham, Joseph Chamberlain, Alfred Lyttelton and 1st Lord Roberts, and visits to the homes of Rudyard Kipling and Major-General Ivor Maxse.
2 files.

Jun 1911-Aug 1914

AFA private diary. With loose letters, journal entries etc including: letters from [Radcliffe] Lindsay Bashford, Literary Editor of the Daily Mail, commissioning an article by AFA on how the build-up to war affected the political hostess (2); poems on the First World War; a note from Mary, Lady Northcliffe thanking AFA for sympathy; a letter from the 9th Duke of Devonshire [earlier Lord Hartington] inviting them to stay; samples of material for baby clothes.
2 files.

Jul 1911-Feb 1923

AFA private diary.
1 file.

Apr 1923-Sep 1923

AFA private diary. Covers LSA's Empire Tour, with photographs and letters from individuals including: Vincent Massey [Canadian Minister to the United States] and Alice Massey; Blanche, Lady Lloyd, describing a visit to Baghdad [Iraq] by the King of Afghanistan; William Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada].
2 files.

Jul 1927-Feb 1928

AFA private diary. With loose letters, notes and journal entries on subjects including: LSA's journeys in Switzerland and Italy; Julian Amery's progress in skiing; AFA and LSA's concerns about John Amery's behaviour.
2 files.

Feb 1928-Dec 1934

AFA private diary. Includes loose notes and quotations.
2 files.

Jan 1936-Sep 1939

Address book. Includes notes and loose letters from LSA's constituents.
2 files; Fragile..

Mar 1939-Dec 1944

AFA private diary. Includes note on the death of LSA, with loose letters, notes and quotations, including quotations from Byron's Childe Harold sent to AFA from John Amery while in prison, LSA's tribute to AFA's elder sister, Mary Hamar Greenwood and letters from Sir Firoz Khan Noon, High Commissioner for India in Britain, inviting LSA and AFA to lunch.
2 files; Fragile..

Sep 1939-Sep 1958

AFA private diary. Includes notes on the death of John Amery, AFA's memories of him, her wish to write, loose family photographs and letters.
2 files.

Dec 1945-Mar 1965

AFA private diary. Includes the death of AFA's sister Sadie Rodney and loose notes, orders of service etc.
2 files.

Mar 1965-Apr 1967

AFA private diary.
1 file.

Apr 1967-Jul 1969

AFA private diary. With loose letters, including John Amery's final letters to AFA and LSA and a copy of LSA's letter to Lionel Curtis on John Amery's death.
2 files.

Jul 1969-Dec 1974

AFA private diary.
1 file.

Jan 1975-Feb 1975

AFA entertaining diary. Includes loose invitations etc.
2 files.

Jun 1912-Mar 1925

AFA housekeeping. Details of household accounts, wages and servants, with related notes and correspondence.
2 files.

Oct 1926-Dec 1944

AFA entertaining diary. Includes guest lists, invitations, thank you notes, menus and letters from individuals including: Alan Hotham; Cicely, Lady Salisbury; Mary, Lady Minto; [Evelyn] Dorothy Emrys-Evans; [Joan] Rosita McGrath [Rosita Forbes]; Olive Nation; [Adelaide] Mabel, Lady Allenby; Cosmo Lang [Archbishop of Canterbury]; Sir Abe Bailey; Anne Chamberlain; 1st Lord Lloyd; Sir Harry McGowan; Dougal Malcolm; Aileen, 2nd Countess Roberts; Robert Rankin; Diana Sandys [earlier Diana Churchill]; Kenneth Lindsay; Richard Kay-Shuttleworth; John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; Pamela Berry [later Pamela, Lady Hartwell]; Malcolm MacDonald; Sir [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain; Margaret, Lady Bray.
2 files.

Apr 1923-Aug 1936

AFA entertaining diary. Includes guest lists, invitations, thank you notes, menus and letters from individuals including: Pamela, Lady Lytton; 1st Lord Vansittart (2); Count Edward Reventlow; Edwina, Lady Mountbatten; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd]; Gladys, Lady Catto (2); Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd; Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham; Edward Marsh; Florence, Lady Cork and Orrery; Arthur Bryant; Lady Delia Peel; 1st Lord Woodbridge [earlier Arthur Churchman]; Evelyn, Duchess of Devonshire; Sir Henry Strakosch; Kathleen, Lady Rayleigh; Margaret, Lady Crewe; Sir Stephen Tallents; Sir Firoz Khan Noon (2); Sir Archibald Sinclair [later 1st Lord Thurso]; 1st Lord Lloyd; Sir John Dill; Sir John Monck (2); Sir Hassan Suhrawardy; 1st Lord Hardinge of Penshurst; John Winant (2); [Arthur] Beverley Baxter; Archduke Robert of Austria (2); [Vi] Wellington Koo [Chinese Ambassador to Britain]; Ernest Brown; Somerset de Chair; 1st Lord Moyne [earlier Walter Guinness]; Robert Barrington-Ward; 1st Lord Merriman; Agnes Maisky; 1st Lord Lang (2); Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos] (2); Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe]; Sir [Abraham] Jeremy Raisman; Robert Foot; 'Top' [3rd Lord Selborne, earlier Lord Wolmer]; Sir Archibald Nye; 5th Lord Listowel [earlier Lord Ennismore]; [Laura] Kathleen, Lady Ismay.
3 files.

Mar 1934-Mar 1948

AFA entertaining diary. Includes guest lists, invitations, thank you notes, menus and letters from individuals including Sir Orme Sargent.
1 file.

Apr 1948-May 1949

AFA 'At Homes' book. Lists of guests paying calls and attending AFA's parties.
1 file.

Mar 1920-Jul 1923

AFA 'At Homes' book. Lists of guests paying calls and attending AFA's parties.
1 file.

Feb 1925-Jun 1927

AFA 'At Homes' book. Lists of guests paying calls and attending AFA's parties.
1 file.

Mar 1928-Mar 1929

Address book.
1 file.

c 1928

Electorate address book. Includes letters from LSA's constituents, from the Sparkbrook Division, Birmingham [Warwickshire and notes for a speech by AFA on LSA's behalf.
2 files.

Jan 1913-Sep 1938

Typescript extracts from LSA's letters to AFA.
2 files.

Apr 1913-Oct 1946

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: LSA's adoption as MP for Sparkbrook, Birmingham [Warwickshire]; speeches by LSA to the House of Commons, including his speech on the Insurance Bill (1911) and attacks against David Lloyd George [Chancellor of the Exchequer]; meetings with Joseph Chamberlain and [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, on tariff reform and Free Trade; public meetings, including one with Christabel Pankhurst; LSA's visit to Ulster [Northern Ireland], particularly a visit to the shipyards, seeing the Titanic, talks with Sir Edward Carson and others on Home Rule and Unionist Party meetings; LSA's travels in Ireland, including a visit to Blacksod Bay [County Mayo]; LSA's view of the suffragette movement; researching Amery family history; a meeting of the Halsbury Club on reform of the House of Lords.
2 files; Fragile..

Mar 1911-Jul 1913

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: LSA's visit to Ulster and his stay with 6th Lord Londonderry; speeches, LSA's growing popularity as a speaker and his view that Arthur Balfour and Andrew Bonar Law [Leader of the Conservative Party] were not pressing Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] hard enough in debate; LSA's intelligence work on General Sir Henry Rawlinson's staff with the 4th Corps in Flanders [Belgium]; the First Battle of Ypres; finding his brother Harold Amery in hospital; the death of Major Hugh Dawnay; the death of 1st Lord Roberts; a visit from King George V and the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and Edward, Duke of Windsor].
1 file; Fragile..

Jan 1914-Dec 1914

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: LSA's posting to the Balkans; his time in Athens [Greece], Serbia and Romania, collecting information on the Danube; the importance of Greek support to the success of the Dardanelles expedition; rumours of Bulgaria's entry into the war; doubts as to the intentions of Russia; the effect of Italy's entry into the war; LSA's feeling that he would soon be returning to political work.
1 file; Fragile and text faded in places..

Jan 1915-Jun 1915

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: LSA's view of Sir Henry Bax-Ironside [Minister Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria]; the muddle made of diplomacy between Serbia and Bulgaria; LSA's surprise that Winston Churchill was staying in the British Government in a lower position [as Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster], following his resignation as First Lord of the Admiralty; LSA's view of his own journalistic skills, compared with those of John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; the political stalemate in the Balkans; recalling his first meeting with AFA; LSA's decision to show support for David Lloyd George, Minister of Munitions; the illness of LSA's brother Harold Amery; LSA's work in support of Compulsory Service; the worsening situation in the Balkans with Bulgaria's entry into the war; the lack of leadership from "Squiff" [Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith].
1 file; Fragile and text faded in places..

Jun 1915-Oct 1915

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: events in Parliament, particularly debates on Compulsory Service and the lack of leadership from "Squiff" [Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]; LSA's attachment to the Staff in Salonika [Thessaloniki, Greece].
1 file; Fragile and text faded in places..

Jan 1916-Nov 1916

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: LSA's work at the Supreme War Council in Paris [France] with 1st Lord Milner and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Wilson; the success of Milner and David Lloyd George [Prime Minister]; the effect of the Russian Revolution; LSA's support for Lloyd George.
1 file.

May 1917-Dec 1917

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: LSA's election campaign (December 1918); a stay with David Lloyd George [Prime Minister] at Criccieth [Gwynedd, Wales]; the death of Geoffrey Amery at Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp [Germany]; meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet; the Supreme War Council at Versailles [France]; the German spring offensive; LSA's visit to Allied forces in Egypt.
2 files; Fragile, some text faded..

Jan 1918-Dec 1918

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: Geoffrey Amery's detention and death at Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp [Germany]; John Amery's education; the Imperial War Cabinet; the Allied victory in Palestine; the Supreme War Council at Versailles [France]; drawing up peace terms for Austria and Turkey; finding a political post for LSA, particularly with the help of 1st Lord Milner; LSA's election campaign; combining campaign ideas with [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain.
2 files; Fragile, some text faded..

Sep 1918-Dec 1918

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: the birth of Julian Amery; early childhood of John Amery; meeting Elinor Glyn; a dinner given for his colleagues by David Lloyd George [Prime Minister]; Sir Hamar Greenwood becoming Secretary of the Overseas Trade Department; peace celebrations; meeting Brigadier-General [Frederick] Gordon Guggisberg and Decima Moore-Guggisberg; speeches by LSA including introducing the Colonial Office estimates.
2 files; Fragile..

Mar 1919-Dec 1919

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: the West Indian colonial conference at Ottawa [Canada]; the debate on whether Britain should intervene in Poland's war against Russia.
1 file; Fragile..

Jan 1920-Sep 1920

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: LSA leaving the Colonial Office to become Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty; Parliamentary business and speeches by LSA; a hernia operation for 1st Lord Lee of Fareham [First Lord of the Admiralty]; climbing in the Alps, particularly at Chamonix [France]; talks with [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain over Ireland.
1 file; Fragile..

Apr 1921-Nov 1921

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: LSA's view of 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith], particularly his intelligence, health, arguments with Sir Hamar Greenwood and Sir John Simon and his opinion of the Cabinet; Winston Churchill's committee on the Geddes Report on Government spending; problems with John Amery at school; policy on Ireland; naval estimates.
1 file; Fragile..

Jan 1922-Sep 1922

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: speeches by LSA in Oxford; climbing in the French Alps.
1 file; Fragile..

Feb 1923-Aug 1923

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: speeches and public meetings; LSA hitting George Buchanan in Parliament; climbing in the Alps.
1 file; Fragile..

Apr 1924-Sep 1924

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Letters written during LSA's tour of the Middle East, on subjects including: meeting the Emir Abdullah of Transjordan [later King Abdullah of Jordan]; conferences in Iraq; accounts of the over-ambitious schemes of 1st Lord Lloyd [former Governor of Bombay, India]; touring ancient sites; improving the Iraqi army; talks with King Feisal of Iraq; negotiations in the League of Nations with the Turks over Mosul [Al-Mawsil, Iraq].
1 file; Fragile..

Mar 1925-Sep 1925

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: stabilising existing preferences in Winston Churchill's Budget; speeches by LSA; climbing in the Alps; policy over Ireland; the arrival of Emir Ghazi, son of King Feisal of Iraq.
1 file; Fragile..

Jan 1926-Oct 1928

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: arguments with Winston Churchill [Chancellor of the Exchequer] over [?] Colonial Office spending; LSA's view of Churchill's 1929 Budget and hope that he would soon be moved to another position; colonial speeches and meetings, including LSA's respect for Jan Hofmeyr; a voyage to Canada in Churchill's company, with LSA's appreciation of Churchill's vitality, but disapproval of his economic understanding, Churchill's intention of dropping out of politics, his Victorianism, skill in making money and differences with his son, Randolph Churchill; LSA's stay in Canada, including climbing Mount Amery in the Canadian Rockies; LSA's concern about the Government's handling of riots in Palestine.
1 file.

Apr 1929-Dec 1929

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: public meetings and speeches; stays in Oxford and the south coast with Julian Amery; climbing in the Alps.
1 file.

Apr 1930-Sep 1930

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: climbing with Julian Amery in France; the need to replace Stanley Baldwin as leader of the Conservative Party; the formation of the coalition National Government, LSA's relief at being outside it, his opinion that the Conservative leaders had blundered and that the real crisis was fiscal, rather than political; LSA's doubts on his own political future and consolation that Winston Churchill was being ignored as well; Baldwin's fear of taking office and LSA's view of his behaviour in not seeing him or offering him a place in the new Cabinet; 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Douglas Hogg]'s resentment at not retaining the office of Lord Chancellor and the scornful attitudes of 1st Lord Beaverbrook [owner of the Daily Express, earlier Max Aitken] and Churchill to the new Government; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain's view that the new Government should be ended as soon as possible; debates in Parliament; advocating tariffs with Churchill.
1 file.

Jan 1931-Sep 1931

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: public meetings and speeches; Julian Amery's progress at school; LSA's visit to Denmark and Sweden as leader of a parliamentary delegation to Denmark; the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa, Canada, including LSA's part in it, his frustration at not doing more, and his views of the rest of the British delegation, particularly 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Douglas Hogg]'s lack of courage, [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain's ignorance and obstinacy and their generally negative attitude and lack of sympathy with the Dominions; a legal case brought by John Amery and his attempted marriage; the death of 1st Lord Plumer; the Conservative Party Conference; climbing in Wales; John Amery's attempts to find work in Hollywood [United States].
1 file.

Jan 1932-Dec 1932

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: LSA's visit to various metalworks in Germany; John Amery's troubles with money and an unnamed woman; climbing and skiing in Austria and Switzerland; LSA's opinion of the writings of Oswald Mosley [founder, British Union of Fascists]; LSA's stay in Vienna and meetings with Austrian Nazis.
1 file.

Jan 1933-Aug 1934

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: LSA's visits to the Bavarian Alps in Germany, to Canada and to Vienna [Austria] to stay with the von Passavant family, including meeting Edward, Duke of Windsor [earlier King Edward VIII].
1 file.

Aug 1935-Sep 1937

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: LSA's visit to Rome [Italy], April 1938, particularly his meetings with Count Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister; LSA's own prospects, and those of John Amery and Julian Amery, during the war; a broadcast by LSA in German, December 1939; LSA's visit to Paris [France] in 1940, meeting John Amery and the bad start for the new government of Paul Reynaud; bombing raids near Chester [Cheshire]; difficulties with Winston Churchill [Prime Minister] interfering in Indian affairs, September 1942; LSA's visit to the Indian forces in Italy in 1944; climbing in Switzerland after the war.
1 file.

Jan 1938-Oct 1946

Letters from LSA to AFA before and during their engagement.
2 files.

Jun 1910-Nov 1910

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Chiefly love letters, and with other subjects including: the possibility of LSA becoming parliamentary candidate for Bedford; his campaign for the Sparkbrook Division of Birmingham [Warwickshire]; a visit to Dublin [Ireland]; public meetings and speeches. Also includes letters to AFA from various sources, photographs of AFA, letters from AFA to her mother, press cuttings on their wedding.
4 files.

Feb 1900-Jan 1914

"Most precious" letters from LSA to AFA. Letters on their marriage and also letters from 1933, mainly on having to bail out John Amery, particularly over some jewellery and his marriage in Greece, but also on subjects including a special meeting of the Conservative Central Council on India and LSA's book "The Forward View". Also includes a letter from 1st Lord Greenwood on offering John Amery a job.
1 file.

Nov 1910-Aug 1933

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: a visit to Italy; speeches and public meetings; LSA's visit to Australia and New Zealand [with the British branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association].
1 file.

Aug 1912-Oct 1913

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Chiefly love letters, and with other subjects including: LSA's visit to Northern Ireland, the popularity of Sir Edward Carson and the state of the Home Rule debate; LSA's stay at Cliveden [Buckinghamshire] with Waldorf Astor and Nancy Astor; public meetings and speeches on raising troops for the army; the funeral of 1st Lord Roberts; personal letters while LSA was on General Sir Henry Rawlinson's staff with the 4th Corps in Flanders [Belgium]; the effect of LSA's criticism of Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith]; fraternisation with the German troops on Christmas Day; writing an account of the First Battle of Ypres; the state of the trenches.
1 file.

Feb 1914-Jan 1915

"Special" letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: their wedding anniversary; the death of 1st Lord Roberts; LSA's beginning intelligence work.
1 file.

Oct 1914-Nov 1914

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Chiefly love letters written while LSA was at Headquarters in Salonika [Thessaloniki, Greece], and with other subjects including: the state of the naval war; LSA's concerns with domestic politics, particularly over Ireland; being taken up in an aeroplane; the death of Brigadier-General Philip Howell; LSA's justified doubts about the Romanian army; whether he should return home or stay with the army; a court of inquiry into accusations of spying. Also includes a letter from Lady Edward Cecil [later Violet, Lady Milner] and a postcard from Geoffrey Amery, while in Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp [Germany].
3 files.

Jun 1915-Dec 1916

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Letters on personal and family subjects, including: an attempt by [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon] to stop Benito Mussolini's military preparations and to bring him back into the League of Nations (1935); John Amery's money troubles and stopping him from influencing his brother Julian Amery; LSA's book "The Stranger of the Ulysses"; an illness suffered by Julian Amery; LSA's ideas for his funeral; recognition for AFA's charity work with the Indian Comforts Fund.
2 files.

Apr 1917-Aug 1945

Personal letters from LSA to AFA. Subjects include: a visit to Canada with Julian Amery; meetings and speeches; campaigning at Preston [Lancashire] for Julian Amery; a visit to Palestine; a visit to South Africa; LSA's memoirs ["My Political Life"]. Also includes Christmas greetings from [William] Mackenzie King.
2 files.

Jul 1946-Jul 1955

Personal letters from AFA to LSA.
1 file.

Jul 1910-Oct 1911

Personal letters from AFA to LSA.
3 files.

Jul 1910-Apr 1912

Personal letters from AFA to LSA.
2 files.

Sep 1912-Jan 1915

Personal letters from AFA to LSA. Also includes probate valuation for the jewels, plate and effects of LSA's mother, Elizabeth Amery [earlier Elizabeth Leitner].
2 files.

Mar 1915-Oct 1915

Personal letters from AFA to LSA. Subjects include: 1st Lord Milner's wish to have LSA with him, and his reluctance to interfere with LSA's career (Dec 1916); the childhood of John Amery; AFA's sisters; people who might advance LSA's career.
2 files.

Nov 1914-Dec 1918

Personal letters from AFA to LSA.
3 files.

Jan 1919-Sep 1940

Personal letters from AFA to LSA.
2 files.

Jan 1928-Jun 1932

Personal letters from AFA to LSA.
1 file.

Mar 1929-Oct 1933

Personal letters from AFA to LSA. Also includes a letter from Alexander Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, on John Amery taking the entrance exam, and letters from AFA's sister, Sadie Rodney [earlier Sadie Greenwood].
1 file.

Feb 1930-Nov 1934

Personal letters from AFA to LSA. Also includes: speech notes on why women in Sparkbrook [LSA's constituency in Birmingham, should work and vote for the Conservative Party.
1 file.

c 1920-Dec 1955

Letters to Geoffrey Amery. Letters from AFA to LSA's brother Geoffrey.
1 file.

Jan 1913-Nov 1917

Correspondence between AFA and John Allen. Letters to AFA from John Allen, son of James Allen, Minister of Defence for New Zealand, on his service in the Dardanelles [Turkey], and also letters from his mother, sisters, and from Lionel Curtis following his death.
1 file.

May 1915-Aug 1915

Letters from "Pipette". Letters to AFA from the Amery family nanny on subjects including holidays with Julian Amery and recalling John Amery.
1 file.

Jul 1926-Dec 1947

Letters from AFA to Julian Amery. Letters from AFA used in [?] Julian Amery's autobiography, "Approach March", and also letters from Julian Amery and LSA to AFA while visiting Canada in 1949. Also includes text of a broadcast by AFA on the Indian Comforts Fund and photographs of a visit to Prince Edward Island in 1920 by 9th Duke of Devonshire, Governor-General of Canada.
3 files.

Jul 1920-Jun 1949

Letters to AFA from family and friends. Correspondents include: 8th Lord Hardwicke [earlier Lord Royston]; George Faber [later 1st Lord Wittenham]; Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister of Canada; Mary Greenwood (7); Hamar Greenwood; Gladys Greenwood (4); Violet Markham [later Violet Carruthers]; Eustace Fiennes.
1 file.

Nov 1908-Apr 1918

Letters from AFA to Ermine Murray. Letters from AFA to Ermine Murray [later Ermine, Lady Elibank] on subjects including LSA's election campaign for Sparkbrook, Birmingham [Warwickshire]. Also includes a letter from Mary Greenwood and a letter from LSA to Ermine Murray on AFA's success in campaigning.
1 file.

Dec 1910-Jun 1946

Letters from Ermine Murray to AFA. Letters from Ermine Murray [later Ermine, Lady Elibank] to AFA.
1 file.

Mar 1911-Oct 1911

Letters from Ermine Murray to AFA. Letters from Ermine Murray [later Ermine, Lady Elibank] to AFA.
1 file.

1911-Jul 1912

Letters to AFA from family and friends. Correspondents include: Hamar Greenwood on subjects including John Amery's christening and his own legal work (2); Dorothy, Lady Stanley (2); Jesse Collings (2); George Faber [later 1st Lord Wittenham (2)]; Mary, Lady Northcliffe (3); [Albert] Basil Wilberforce [Archdeacon of Westminster]; 1st Lord Milner (2); Nora, Lady Roberts; Field Marshal 1st Lord Roberts, giving advice on questions that LSA was to ask in Parliament on National Service; L J Maxse, Editor of the National Review; Ivy Chamberlain.
1 file.

Apr 1912-Feb 1914

Letters to AFA from family and friends. Correspondents include: John Allen; Jesse Collings (2); Andrew Bonar Law; 1st Lord Milner; 9th Duke of Devonshire, Chairman of the Princess Mary's Sailors' and Soldiers' Christmas Fund [earlier Lord Hartington]; Lady Ralph Kerr; Lady Susan Dawnay; Nora, Lady Roberts; George Faber [later 1st Lord Wittenham]; Mary Chamberlain; Harold Amery on subjects including being wounded (4); Mary Arnold-Forster (2); Dorothy, Lady Stanley (2); Violet Markham [later Violet Carruthers]; [?] Francois Charles-Roux, French Minister of War, on LSA being one of the first British MPs to come and fight in France; Hamar Greenwood on becoming a baronet and recalling their parents.
1 file.

Jan 1914-Mar 1915

Letters from Gladys Greenwood. Mainly letters from AFA's sister Gladys Greenwood [later Gladys Rodney], on the birth and early childhood of John Amery, with other correspondents including: Dorothy, Lady Stanley (2); Edith Lyttelton; Hamar Greenwood; Harold Amery; LSA; Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick; Mary Lloyd-Baker (3).
2 files.

Nov 1911-Dec 1913

Letters from Gladys Greenwood. Letters to AFA from her sister [later Gladys Rodney].
2 files.

Aug 1916–1918

Letters from Gladys Greenwood. Letters to AFA and LSA from AFA's sister [later Gladys Rodney], on subjects including advice from 1st Lord Northcliffe [earlier Alfred Harmsworth] that LSA should stay in the Colonial Office until after the Imperial Conference, and on his determination to promote a separate Air Ministry. Other correspondents include: Alice, Lady Wimborne [earlier Alice Guest].
1 file.

Jul 1919-Sep 1931

Letters from AFA to Gladys Greenwood. Letters from AFA to her sister [later Gladys Rodney] while on the Empire Tour with LSA, particularly on visits to Bechuanaland [later Botswana], Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe], South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Includes photographs of the Tour.
2 files.

Jul 1927-Jan 1928

Letters to AFA from Margery Cross. Letters from AFA's sister [earlier Margery Greenwood] following LSA's and AFA's visit to Canada during the Empire Tour.
1 file.

Feb 1928-Dec 1929

Letters to AFA from 1st Lord Greenwood, Gladys Rodney and Margery Cross. Letters from AFA's brother and sisters [earlier Gladys Greenwood and Margery Greenwood].
2 files.

Jun 1915-Jan 1945

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: 8th Lord Hardwicke [earlier Lord Royston]; Mary Greenwood (9); Hamar Greenwood on subjects including his unsuccessful election campaign (1910) (4); Ermine Murray [later Ermine, Lady Elibank]; Dorothy, Lady Stanley (5); 2nd Lord Napier of Magdala; Fabian Trollope; Harold Amery; Anne Chamberlain (2); Lady Edward Cecil [later Violet, Lady Milner] (2); Rose Ravenshaw; Lady Francis Scott (2); Mary Childers; Sir William Allardyce [Governor of the Bahamas] on his arrival in the Bahamas, trying to rouse the Bahamians and being able to see the Battle of the Falklands; Sibella Macarthur Onslow (2); Lady Muriel Paget; Alice, Lady Grey; James Craig [later 1st Lord Craigavon] on Gladys Greenwood's health; 1st Lord Wimborne [earlier Lord Ashby St Ledgers] on Gladys Greenwood; Margaret, Lady Birkenhead; Peter Larkin; Andrew Bonar Law; Mary Lloyd-Baker; Maud Pollen; Mary, Lady Northcliffe [later Mary, Lady Hudson]; Cecilia Fisher; Averil Tryon; Mary, Lady Monro; Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes; 1st Lord Cave; Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Beatty; Admiral Sir [Somerset] Arthur Calthorpe; Herbert Meade [later Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh]; Sir Robert Horne (2); [John] Clarence Webster on establishing personal links between Britain and Canada; Dame Edith Lyttelton; Raoul Dandurand; Edward Arnold (2); [Marie] Penelope, Lady Clementi, on the effect of Communism in China, an attempted General Strike in Hong Kong, the lack of support for the British from the Foreign Office, the over-importance given to Peking [Beijing], pirates in Bias Bay, the break down in law and order and fears for the future of Hong Kong with the loss of British prestige (5); King Feisal of Iraq, thanking AFA for her kindness to his son, Emir Ghazi; Marie, Lady Willingdon; Hazel, Lady Lavery (2); Elsie, Lady Chancellor (2); 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Douglas Hogg]; [Cicely] Alice, Lady Salisbury (3); Samuel Bickersteth; Esme, Lady Dobbs; Herbert Heaton on the Colonial Service's gratitude to LSA; Sir [Christopher] James Parr, High Commissioner in London for New Zealand; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]. Also includes: cheque counterfoils, 1910; cigarette and signed menu given to AFA by the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and the Duke of Windsor] with AFA's account of the lunch she and LSA gave for him before his tour of Australia and of his departure.
3 files.

Oct 1909-Dec 1929

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Mary Chamberlain [later Mary Carnegie] on Joseph Chamberlain's distress at the state of the Conservative Party; 1st Lord Milner (2); 1st Lord Greenwood (3); Henry de Satge [Ceremonial Secretary, Colonial Office]; Anne Chamberlain. Also includes: press cuttings; summary of the work of the London House [later Goodenough College] ladies' group.
1 file.

Dec 1910-Nov 1947

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Lord Ednam [later 3rd Lord Dudley]; "Sadie" [Gladys Rodney, earlier Gladys Greenwood] (32); [Cicely] Alice, Lady Salisbury; Janet Trevelyan; 5th Lord Clanwilliam [earlier Lord Dromore]; Lucy Baldwin; Estella, Lady Cave; Frances, Lady Chelmsford; Michael Hodges [Naval Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty]; [Marie] Penelope Clementi on her life in Ceylon [later Sri Lanka] and arrival in Hong Kong (2); [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (2); St Clair Donaldson, Bishop of Salisbury; Sir John Mellor; Sir Robert Borden; Caroline Grosvenor; 1st Lord Greenwood (2); Peter Larkin, High Commissioner of Canada; Cosmo Lang; Lord Carson; Gian, Lady Mount Stephen (2); Dame Edith Antrobus; Lady Cynthia Mosley; Marigold, Lady Sinclair [later Marigold, Lady Thurso]; James Welldon, former Headmaster of Harrow School, recalling LSA's days at the school (2); Pamela, Lady Lytton; [?] Mary, Lady Northcliffe [later Mary, Lady Hudson]; 1st Lord Willingdon [earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas]; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst]; Sir Patrick Hannon; Sir Herbert Heaton; Sir Dougal Malcolm; Viola Garvin; Duncan Duncan-Sandys on his regret at leaving the Ministry of Supply; Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone.
2 files.

Dec 1913-Jan 1957

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Dorothy, Lady Stanley; Sir Vincent Baddeley [First Principal Assistant Secretary, Admiralty] (2); Charles Ffoulkes [Curator of the Tower Armouries] on supplying and cleaning the armour at Admiralty House (3); John Singer Sargent on his portrait of 1st Lord Plumer (4); Lady Edward Cecil [later Violet, Lady Milner]; Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch; Sir Edward Davson; 1st Lord Northcliffe [earlier Alfred Harmsworth]; Sir Robert Borden; Sir Hamar Greenwood; Olive Lecky Pike; Mary Hughes (2); Ruth, Lady Lee (2); 1st Lord Stamfordham [earlier Arthur Bigge]; Mary, Lady Northcliffe [later Mary, Lady Hudson] on the illness and death of her husband (3); Alice, Lady Wimborne (2); 1st Lord Plumer; Annie, Lady Plumer; Sir Robert Ho Tung; [Frederick] Nugent Hicks; Joan, Lady Grigg, on going out to Kenya; Alice Clifford; Caroline Bridgeman on having to chair a [?] naval conference (2); Ruby, Lady Cromer; Elizabeth, Lady Clifford; Estella, Lady Cave (2); Sir Frank Fox; Edward Arnold; Gian, Lady Mount Stephen (16); Ethel Bruce; [Cicely] Alice, Lady Salisbury (2); Maud Cazalet; Elsie, Lady Chancellor; Gertrude Howard on the death of her husband John Howard, Agent-General for Nova Scotia [Canada] (3); Sir Edward Grigg [Governor of Kenya, later 1st Lord Altrincham] on the gloomy situation in Kenya; Sir George Duckworth; Alfred Bossom; Lucy Baldwin; Maud, Lady Hoare [later Maud, Lady Templewood]; Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. Also includes: notes on Admiralty House and inventories of fittings and furniture; notes on an exhibition on British Columbian Indians, opened by AFA; ribbon from AFA's wedding bouquet.
2 files.

Oct 1916-Jan 1938

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Diana Churchill [later Diana Sandys]; Edward Marsh; Eva, Lady Keyes; [Malcolm] Grahame Christie; 1st Lord Austin; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood]; Edith Thompson; Eugenia Tilea; Sir [Percy] James Grigg [Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War], asking if AFA would take part in a broadcast to India; Sir Arcot Mudaliar; Sir Robert Ho Tung; Rebecca West.
1 file.

Jan 1928-Feb 1958

AFA in-letters and "Day Book scraps". Correspondents include: 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] inquiring after LSA's health; [Mary] Catharine Inge; Anne, Duchess of Westminster.
1 file.

May 1910-May 1953

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Gian, Lady Mount Stephen (6); 1st Lord Greenwood (2); John Buchan [later 1st Lord Tweedsmuir]; Florence, Lady Brooks; [Adelaide] Mabel, Lady Allenby; Major Sir Malcolm Campbell; Elsie, Lady Allardyce; Violet Wills; Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt; 1st Lord Lloyd; 1st Lord Kylsant [earlier Owen Philipps]; Jacques Bardoux; Bertram Thomas; Sir William Goodenough [President of the Royal Geographical Society] (3); [Katharine] Davina, Lady Erne; Dame Edith Antrobus; [Adeline] Verena, Lady Clarendon (3); Dougal Malcolm on his regret that LSA was not in the Cabinet; Pamela, Lady Lytton, on LSA not being in the Cabinet; Sir Thomas Lennard on LSA not being in the Cabinet; Helen Macmillan; Marie, Lady Willingdon (2); Ermine, Lady Elibank [earlier Ermine Murray]; Dorothy, Lady Waller; Lady Maud Hoare [later Maud, Lady Templewood]; Mary Greenwood (5); Ruby, Lady Cromer; E F Benson; [?] Mary, Lady Northcliffe [later Mary, Lady Hudson]; Lord Athlone [Governor-General of Canada] on funding the education of children evacuated to Canada; Lord Cranborne [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 5th Lord Salisbury] commenting on the lack of funding for evacuated children; John Masefield on advice for young poets (2); Dame Margaret Greville; 17th Duke of Alba [Spanish Ambassador to Britain] on his distress at the death of King Alfonso XIII of Spain; Constance Winant; Sir Shingha Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana [Nepalese Ambassador to Britain] on donating to the Indian Comforts Fund; Don Tomas Le Breton, Argentinian Ambassador to Britain; Sir Firoz Khan Noon. Also includes: accounts by AFA of a visit to the Gobelin tapestry works, life in London, including the funeral of King Edward VII and meeting the Asquith family; diary entry for August 1932, describing a stay in Scotland and an accident to John Amery; tribute and funeral service for Mary Greenwood.
2 files.

Jun 1929-Sep 1941

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: "Ulla" [Margery Cross, earlier Margery Greenwood] (2); Florence O'Gorman; Margaret, Lady Jersey; Dorothy, Lady Irwin [later Dorothy, Lady Halifax]; Elsie, Lady Allardyce on the death of Sir William Allardyce; T Drummond Shiels; Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, on recovering from an operation; Duncan Duncan-Sandys, thanking AFA and LSA for their help in his Foreign Office entry exam; Sir Robert Borden; the Yuvaraj of Bhor; Evelyn, Lady Howse; [William] Mackenzie King; [Adeline] Verena, Lady Clarendon; Gian, Lady Mount Stephen; Sir Francis Younghusband; Eleanor Addison Phillips, President of the Association of Headmistresses; Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham]; Annie, Lady Plumer on an operation on 1st Lord Plumer; Sibella Macarthur Onslow.
1 file.

Mar 1930-Feb 1936

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Chaim Weizmann, thanking AFA and LSA for their kindness on their departure for Palestine; Dame Violet Wills (4); Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on honours; Arthur Bryant, apologising for being unintentionally rude about LSA; [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, on honours.
1 file.

Oct 1934-Feb 1938

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Mary Greenwood (3); Lucy Baldwin; [Adelaide] Mabel, Lady Allenby, on the death of 1st Lord Allenby; Sarah Millin; Lady Katharine Seymour; Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; Ralegh Phillpotts [Chairman of the British Tabulating Machine Company]; Maud, Lady Hoare [later Maud, Lady Templewood]; Agatha, Lady Sligo; 2nd Lord Lytton on the death of his mother Edith, Lady Lytton; [William] Mackenzie King; Winifred Coleridge; Ida, Countess Coudenhove-Kalergi.
1 file.

Jan 1936-Feb 1938

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Marie, Lady Willingdon, on the death of 1st Lord Willingdon; Muriel du Maurier; Rosalind, Duchess of Abercorn; Constance Winant thanking AFA for her sympathy on the death of John Winant; Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe]; 6th Lord Clarendon, Lord Chamberlain [earlier Lord Hyde]; Julian Amery (2); Sir Claude Auchinleck; Edwina, Lady Mountbatten; 1st Lord Fairhaven [earlier (Urban) Huttleston Broughton]; [Cecily] Alice, Lady Salisbury; Colin Coote, Deputy Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post; Geoffrey Fisher [Archbishop of Canterbury]; Rosamond Fisher, apologising for a reference [to John Amery] in a sermon; Sir Norman Lamont; Peggy Douglas; William Inge on the death of his wife, [Mary] Catharine Inge (2); Ethel, Lady Desborough; 1st Lord Templewood [earlier Sir Samuel Hoare] and Maud, Lady Templewood [earlier Lady Maud Hoare]. Also includes: a tribute to Sir George Newnes; AFA's account of the journey from London to Birmingham [Warwickshire]; press-cuttings on the Suez Crisis in Egypt and a speech by LSA on the Middle East.
1 file.

Jun 1910-Apr 1953

100

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Sir Bertram Ford, [General Manager] of the Birmingham Post; Sir Walter Monckton [Director-General, Ministry of Information] on [Brendan Bracken] becoming the new Minister of Information, his feeling that it would be easier for Bracken if he were posted elsewhere and the lack of confidence between Bracken and Sir Gerald Campbell [Director-General of British Information Services, New York, United States]; 1st Lord Greenwood on the death of 1st Lord Willingdon [earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas]; "Sadie" [Gladys Rodney, earlier Gladys Greenwood] (6). Also includes Christmas cards from various individuals including Clementine Churchill and Margot, Lady Glyn.
1 file.

Jul 1937-Feb 1943

101

AFA in-letters: "Interesting letters during war". Correspondents include: Lord Athlone [Governor-General of Canada]; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley]; A V Alexander [First Lord of the Admiralty]; Clement Attlee; Sir Cyril Atkinson; various constituents from Birmingham [Warwickshire]; Sir Ernest Burdon, Deputy Chairman of the Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John; 1st Lord Birdwood on subjects including borrowing from a speech by AFA to the women of India (2); 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; [Harold] Malcolm Bullock, Chairman of the Joint War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St John; Arthur Bryant; Enid Bagnold [Enid, Lady Jones] on the death of her father [Arthur Bagnold]; Robert Cary (2); Courtauld Thomson (2); Lillian, Lady Chatfield; Winston Churchill; Clementine Churchill, thanking AFA for various messages (3); Georges Catroux; Anne Chamberlain; Mary, Duchess of Devonshire (2); Cecilia Dawson; Mary Greenwood (2); [Edward] Hugh Dalton (2); 1st Lord Fairhaven [earlier (Urban) Huttleston Broughton]; Marjorie, Lady Fisher; Dame Margaret Greville (2); Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe] (3); Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein; Maud, Lady Hoare [later Maud, Lady Templewood]; Hermione Hichens (2); Sir Ian Hamilton (2); Francis Turnbull [Principal Private Secretary to LSA] on the unfairness of any blame attaching to LSA over the Bengal famine [India]; King Peter II of Yugoslavia (3); Herschel Johnson [American Minister to Britain] on his regret at going to a new post; Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos]; Cosmo Lang [Archbishop of Canterbury] on subjects including Christian education in schools (4); Blanche, Lady Lloyd; Henry Lewin (2); Sir Norman Lamont on LSA's book "Days of Fresh Air"; 3rd Lord Leconfield [earlier Charles Wyndham]; [Beatrice] Violet, Lady Leconfield (5); Pamela, Lady Lytton; Ethel, Lady Lunn; Lady Megan Lloyd George on subjects including the death of 1st Lord Lloyd George (2); 1st Lord Moyne, Deputy Minister of State, Cairo [earlier Walter Guinness] on subjects including a visit to Ibn Saud [King of Saudi Arabia] and his views on Arab Federation (7); Sir Shingha Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana [Nepalese Ambassador to Britain]; Annie, Lady Plumer; Sir [Herbert] Stanley Reed; Else, Countess Reventlow (2); Leila Reitz; 1st Lord Simon (2); James Stuart (3); Claude Shepherd, Secretary of the Indian Comforts Fund (2); Lady Katharine Seymour (2); Sir Ronald Storrs; Duncan Duncan-Sandys; Myron Taylor on the United States's sympathy for Britain (2); Anabel Taylor (2); Sir Henry Wheeler; Lorna Wingate on subjects including the death of Orde Wingate; Dame Violet Wills; Marie, Lady Willingdon.
2 files.

Dec 1934-Nov 1945

102

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Sir Frank Fox, Secretary to the Fellowship of the British Empire Exhibition, thanking AFA for her work as Chairman of the Fellowship's women's committee; Lady Katharine Seymour; Estella, Lady Cave, sympathising with AFA over the worry caused by John Amery (2); Susan Buchan [later Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir]; Blanche, Lady Lloyd on 1st Lord Lloyd's ulcer; Dame Mary Hughes; Sir William Goodenough (2); Dougal Malcolm, on subjects including sympathising over John Amery (2); Sir Henry Birchenough and Mabel, Lady Birchenough, on John Amery; Sarah Legh; Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe]; Virginia Courtauld; [Adeline] Verena, Lady Clarendon on subjects including the tour of South Africa by the Prince of Wales [later King Edward VIII and Edward, Duke of Windsor] and hoping that 6th Lord Clarendon's tour of duty [as Governor-General of South Africa] would not be extended (4); Joan Grigg [later Joan, Lady Altrincham] on the birth of her second son (4); Maud, Lady Hoare [later Maud, Lady Templewood] (2); Sir Edmund Davis; Nancy, Lady Astor; Noel Coward, thanking AFA for her letter about his play "Conversation Piece"; Godfrey Locker-Lampson; Lucy Baldwin; Violet Wills; Sir Roderick Jones; Sir Abe Bailey; Ella Ransford, Headmistress of Croydon High School, on a Canadian school tour; Isabella Drummond [Headmistress of North London Collegiate School]; [Madeline] Dorothy Brock, President of the Association of Head Mistresses; Mary Clarke, Headmistress of Manchester High School; Beatrice Sparks, Principal of Cheltenham Ladies' College; Shena, Lady Simon of Wythenshawe; Gertrude Drayton, Secretary of the Victoria League; Ruby, Lady Cromer; William Madocks; [Annie] Dora Stockdale.
1 file.

Apr 1932-May 1935

103

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Cosmo Lang [Archbishop of Canterbury]; Henry Lewin on the death of his son; 17th Duke of Alba (2); Sir Ronald Storrs; Duncan Duncan-Sandys; Myron Taylor (2); R A Butler; Nicolaas Havenga; 11th Lord Scarbrough, Lord Chamberlain [earlier Lawrence Lumley]; 16th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal [earlier Lord Arundel] on seating for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II; Leonard Brockington; Linnet Hambro on the death of her mother, Beryl Lafone (2); Sir Dougal Malcolm; Eugenie, Lady Wavell, recalling the death of 1st Lord Wavell; Simon Elwes on painting LSA's portrait; Dame Violet Wills; Julian Amery; Sir Richard Nosworthy; Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe]; Sir Winston Churchill; Pamela, Lady Lytton; LSA on a visit to All Souls College, University of Oxford (4); Archduke Robert of Austria; Sir Paul Dukes; 1st Lord Kemsley [earlier James Berry]; Anne Chamberlain; Muriel, Lady du Maurier; Elizabeth Goudge; Clementine, Lady Churchill.
1 file.

Jul 1937-Mar 1955

104

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Oliver Stanley; Sir Richard Nosworthy; Maud, Lady Templewood [earlier Maud, Lady Hoare]; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Edward Grigg]; Edward Beddington-Behrens; Elizabeth Goudge; [William] Mackenzie King; Robert Cary; Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe] (4); Eugenie, Lady Wavell, thanking LSA for a tribute to 1st Lord Wavell; 2nd Lord Hailsham [earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone] on the death of his father, 1st Lord Hailsham [earlier Douglas Hogg]; Julian Amery; LSA (2).
1 file.

Nov 1949-Jan 1951

105

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Sir Richard Nosworthy; 1st Lord McGowan; Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe] (2); Pamela, Lady Lytton (2); 2nd Lord Hailsham [earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; Anne Chamberlain; Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin]; John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College, University of Oxford; "Sadie" [Gladys Rodney, earlier Gladys Greenwood] (7); Derick Heathcoat Amory on taking up the position of British High Commissioner in Canada. Also includes text of a review by Sir Dougal Malcolm of LSA's book "In the Rain and the Sun".
1 file.

Mar 1956-Jun 1961

106

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Amory, British High Commissioner in Canada, on his liking for Canada; Sir Arthur Bryant (2); Elizabeth Goudge (3); 1st Lord Avon [earlier Robert Anthony Eden]; Sir Edward Peacock; Pamela, Lady Lytton; [Alfred] Chester Beatty (4); Duncan Duncan-Sandys [Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations] on how visiting India reminded him of LSA's work; Muriel, Lady du Maurier; Sir Patrick Hannon; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Stockton]; Anne Chamberlain (2); Enid Bagnold [Enid, Lady Jones] on Sir Roderick Jones's death (3); Julian Amery; Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe] (2); Sir Harold Hartley (2).
1 file.

Dec 1959-Apr 1964

107

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Muriel, Lady du Maurier; Roger Cary, BBC, on AFA's suggestion that LSA's "The Stranger of the Ulysses" should be adapted for broadcast; Lady Catherine Amery; representatives of Stileman, Neate and Topping, solicitors, on AFA's properties in Southwark [London] (3); Julian Amery; Sir Hugh Fraser, Secretary of State for Air on following Julian Amery at the Air Ministry; 11th Lord Scarbrough [earlier Lawrence Lumley] on his decision to retire; Elizabeth Goudge; 1st Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton]; John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College, University of Oxford; Violet, Lady Astor; [Alfred] Chester Beatty; Sir Claude Elliott; Pamela, Lady Lytton; Sir Robert Cary on the similarity between LSA's ideas for a united Europe, and the foreign policy of [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Stockton]; Sir Harold Hartley. Also includes rental accounts for AFA's Southwark property.
1 file.

Jan 1962-Jul 1963

108

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Maurice Macmillan; [Alfred] Chester Beatty (2); Elizabeth Goudge (3); Juliet, Lady Rhys-Williams (2); Muriel, Lady du Maurier; Queen Frederica of Greece; Sir Richard Nosworthy (2); Louise Amery (14); Leopold Amery (4); Lady Catherine Amery; Sir Harry Brittain; Alexander Douglas-Home [later Lord Home of the Hirsel]; Agatha, Lady Sligo (2); Pamela, Lady Lytton (2); Sir Claude Elliott (2); Sir Pierson Dixon; Margaret, Lady Meade-Fetherstonhaugh; Sir Arthur Bryant; 1st Lord Malvern [earlier Godfrey Huggins]; Anne Chamberlain on Julian Amery's successful re-election campaign [for Preston North, Lancashire]; Sir Colin Coote; 3rd Lord Kinross [earlier John Balfour] on his book "Ataturk: The Rebirth of a Nation"; Sir [D'Arcy] Patrick Reilly; John Connell on his biography of 1st Lord Wavell; Bridget, Lady Monckton [Lady Ruthven of Freeland, earlier Bridget, Lady Carlisle].
1 file.

Jan 1963-Feb 1965

109

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Vincent Massey (2); George Drew; 1st Lord Avon [earlier Robert Anthony Eden]; Elizabeth Goudge (3); Sir Claude Auchinleck on his affection and respect for LSA; Sir Richard Nosworthy; Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton; Olive Diefenbaker; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye; Eugenie, Lady Wavell; Alexander Douglas-Home [later Lord Home of the Hirsel]; Sir Colin Coote; Sir Harold Hartley; Barbara, Lady Freyberg (2); Joan, Lady Altrincham [earlier Joan, Lady Grigg]; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton].
1 file.

Mar 1965-Dec 1965

110

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Yvonne de Gaulle; Lady Catherine Amery; 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Lloyd-Greame and Philip Cunliffe-Lister] on his memoirs ["Sixty Years of Power"]; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Sir Arthur Bryant; Alexander Douglas-Home [later Lord Home of the Hirsel]; Elizabeth Goudge (6); "Enie" [Irene, Lady Stokes] (4); [Alfred] Chester Beatty; 1st Lord Hailey; Sir Colin Coote (3); 1st Lord Malvern [earlier Godfrey Huggins]; Sir Harold Hartley; Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir [earlier Susan Buchan]; Ruth Connell; Marjorie, Lady Fisher; Sir Stephen Courtauld; Princess Alice, Lady Athlone; Olive Diefenbaker; Virginia, Lady Courtauld; John Sparrow (2); Louise Amery (4); Sir Godfrey Nicholson; Eric Abbott, Dean of Westminster, explaining his refusal to have a memorial to LSA in the Abbey; [Henry] Paul Channon; 1st Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton]; Sir Francis Humphrys (2); 1st Lord Stuart of Findhorn; [Gertrude] Mary, Lady Humphrys.
1 file.

Jan 1960-Apr 1969

111

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Theresa Amery (16); 2nd Lord Birkenhead [earlier Lord Furneaux] on his biography of Lord Halifax (2); Leopold Amery (3); Yvonne de Gaulle; Emanuel Shinwell; Rene Ironside (3); Dorothy, Lady Halifax [earlier Dorothy Wood and Dorothy, Lady Irwin]; Vincent Massey; Sir Colin Coote; Elizabeth Goudge; Sir Robert Menzies; Enid Bagnold [Enid, Lady Jones]; 1st Lord Malvern [earlier Godfrey Huggins]; Sir Arthur Bryant.
1 file.

Aug 1965-Jan 1970

112

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Virginia, Lady Courtauld (2); Theresa Amery (15); [Gertrude] Mary, Lady Humphrys (8); Bonar Sykes on the death of his mother [Mary, Lady Sykes]; Elizabeth Amery (8); Elizabeth Goudge (2); Elizabeth, Lady Abingdon and Lady Lindsey; 1st Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton]; John Tredennick; Louise Amery (3); Dame Agatha Christie [Agatha, Lady Mallowan]; Yvonne de Gaulle; Lady Katharine Seymour (2); [Margaret] Hermione, Lady Cobbold (2); 1st Lord Glendevon [earlier Lord John Hope] on his biography of his father [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] and recalling his father's gratitude for LSA's support while he was Viceroy of India; Sir Claude Elliott; Sir Max Mallowan; Blanche, Lady Malvern on the death of 1st Lord Malvern [earlier Godfrey Huggins]; Sir Robert Cary; Lady Davina Woodhouse; Robert Speaight on his biography of Georges Vanier; Pauline Vanier.
2 files.

Aug 1965-Jan 1972

113

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: Theresa Amery (6); [Gertrude] Mary, Lady Humphrys (2); Barbara Craig, Principal of Somerville College, University of Oxford; Elizabeth Amery (2); Deborah de Laszlo; Marthe, Princess Bibesco (2); Elizabeth, Lady Salisbury, on the death of 5th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne]; [Henry] Paul Channon [Minister of State, Northern Ireland Office] on subjects including his pessimism about the political situation in Northern Ireland; Sir Robert Cary; Julian Amery and Lady Catherine Amery.
1 file.

Mar 1963-Nov 1972

114

AFA in-letters. Correspondents include: [Gertrude] Mary, Lady Humphrys; Sir Godfrey Nicholson; Roberte, Lady Bessborough; John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College, University of Oxford, recalling his affection for LSA; Marthe, Princess Bibesco (3); Theresa Amery (9); Elizabeth Amery (7); Duncan Duncan-Sandys; Hyacinthe, Lady Glasgow (2); Julian Amery (3); Elizabeth, Duchess of Hamilton; Evelyn, Lady Mottistone; Margaret, Duchess of Buccleuch; Lady Katharine Seymour; Sir [Edward] Louis Spears; Lord [Edward] David Cecil; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Hermione Hichens; Sir Charles Ponsonby; Enid Bagnold [Enid, Lady Jones]; Elizabeth Goudge.
2 files.

Apr 1971-Jan 1975

115

AFA in-letters. Items found in AFA's desk blotter, with correspondents including: Elizabeth Goudge; Yvonne de Gaulle; [?] Mary, Duchess of Devonshire; Edward, Duke of Kent, thanking LSA for her letter of sympathy on the death of Princess Marina; Beatrice, Lady Harlech; Lord Casey (3); 1st Lord Hailes [earlier Patrick Buchan-Hepburn]; Sir Patrick Hannon; 1st Lord Attlee.
1 file.

Dec 1956-Aug 1974

116

Postcards to and from the Amery family.
1 file.

Aug 1915-Mar 1921

117

Christmas cards and letters to AFA. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Greenwood; Marie, Lady Willingdon; [Mary] Hermione Hichens; Sir Firoz Khan Noon; [Ferdinand] Stephen Joelson; 1st Lord Lang of Lambeth; Sir Roderick Jones on AFA's anxiety about John Amery; Yvonne de Gaulle.
1 file.

Aug 1937-Oct 1943

118

Christmas cards to AFA.
1 file.

Dec 1937-Dec 1947

119

"People to be entertained". Invitations, visiting cards, guest lists and letters of invitation and thanks to AFA, with correspondents including: Sir Herbert Baker; Dame Edith Lyttelton; Wanda, Lady Max-Muller; Mary Carnegie [earlier Mary Chamberlain]; Caroline Kipling; [Cecilia] Monica, Lady Winterton.
1 file.

Jun 1935-Dec 1938

120

Letters to AFA and LSA. Correspondents include: James Lowther [later 1st Lord Ullswater]; Pamela, Lady Lytton; Ruth, Lady Lee of Fareham on LSA's appointments as [Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Colonies] and then Secretary of State for India (2); Alexander Brown; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] on LSA's success in Iraq; Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos] on his forthcoming wedding; Robert Brand; Isabel, Lady Sykes; John Singer Sargent; Cecil, Lady Wilson; Cicely, Lady Salisbury; Robert Cary on subjects including a meeting between LSA and Oliver Lyttelton at a post-war Conservative Party conference (2); Violet, Lady Milner [earlier Lady Edward Cecil] on 1st Lord Milner's memorial; Annie, Lady Plumer on the people's trust in 1st Lord Plumer [as High Commissioner for Palestine], building a new Government House and LSA's appointment as Secretary of State for India (3); Mary, Lady Allen; Jacques Bardoux; Evelyn, Lady Howse; Ruby, Lady Carson; [Marie] Penelope, Lady Clementi on leaving Hong Kong, local attempts to make Sir Cecil Clementi [outgoing Governor of Hong Kong] stay, the need to protect Hong Kong University and the Mui Tsai system of selling girls into domestic slavery from famine-affected areas; Stanley Bruce; Enid Lyons; Caroline, Lady Bridgeman (2); Maud, Lady Hoare [later Maud, Lady Templewood] (2); Cecilia, Lady Fisher; Anne Chamberlain; Amena Hydari; Myron Taylor on American sympathy for Britain and France; James Hertzog; Sir Herbert Baker; William Webber; E Wilhelmina Ness; Elsie, Lady Allardyce; Ethel, Lady Lunn; Kathleen, Lady Rayleigh; Ermine, Lady Elibank [earlier Ermine Murray]; Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir [earlier Susan Buchan]; Alice, Lady Clifford; Sir Samuel Hoare [later 1st Lord Templewood] on LSA's appointment as Secretary of State for India; Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe] (3); Ethel, Lady Stonehaven; Marjorie, Lady Fisher; Freya Stark; Sarah Gertrude Millin; Sibella Macarthur Onslow; Angela Bruce; Isobel, Lady Jackson on the drought in British Guiana [later Guyana]; Agatha, Lady Sligo; Dame Meriel Talbot; Ursula Grant-Duff; Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham] on the remoteness of the India Office from Indian realities; Sir Norman Lamont; Cornelia Sorabji on LSA's speeches and broadcasts on India (particularly that of June 1940) and the situation in India (3); Sir Robert Vansittart [Chief Diplomatic Adviser to Foreign Secretary] on AFA's suggestions for propaganda in the United States (2); Sir Firoz Khan Noon, High Commissioner for India in Britain on subjects including the Indian Comforts Fund and his visit to Birmingham [Warwickshire] (4); Sir Maurice Denny [President of William Denny and Brothers, Limited, Shipbuilders and Engineers] asking AFA to launch a ship for the Indian Navy (2); 1st Lord Moyne [Deputy Minister of State, Cairo, Egypt, earlier Walter Guinness] on press hostility to policy on India, relations with the Iraqis and Egyptians, Baliffscourt [Moyne's house in Sussex which he had lent to LSA] and the threat of civil war in Palestine (8); Doreen, Lady Linlithgow on having Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek and Mayling Chiang Kai Shek staying with them in India; Claude Shepherd, Secretary of the Indian Comforts Fund (4); 1st Lord Samuel; Oliver Stanley [Secretary of State for the Colonies]; 2nd Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India [earlier Lord Hopetoun] recommending AFA for an honour through her work for the Indian Comforts Fund; 1st Lord Greenwood (2); Sir Hassan Suhrawardy; 1st Lord Birdwood; [Edward] Hugh Dalton; Yvonne de Gaulle (2); Agnes, Lady Colville [later Agnes, Lady Clydesmuir] on the remoteness of the India Office from the Indian Civil Service and the success of voluntary aid detachment nurses in India (2); "Maie" Ethel Casey on subjects including the need for more education among Bengali women, a visit from Julian Amery and the importance of certain women key to Bengal (3); Francis Turnbull [Principal Private Secretary to LSA, India Office] (4); Miguel Carcano, Argentinian Ambassador to Britain; Lieutenant-General George Molesworth [Secretary, Military Department, India Office]; Archibald Wavell; James Thomas, Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] on LSA's reception at the 1946 party conference; 1st Lord Milne; Lord Halifax [Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on making a religious broadcast; Frances Temple; Agnes, Lady Colville [later Agnes, Lady Clydesmuir]; Pamela McKenna on the death of Reginald McKenna; 1st Lord Lloyd (2); Sir Mohamed Akbar Khan on his lecture tour of India and broadcasts to the United States; Sir [Walter] Gordon Neale [Political aide to LSA, India Office] on AFA's part in launching the Indian Comforts Fund and his own retirement (2); Joan, Lady Grigg [later Joan, Lady Altrincham] on AFA's work for the fund; [? Ada Edwina, Lady Roberts, earlier Lady Ada Edwina Lewin] (2); Grizel, Lady Rankeillour. Also includes: text of LSA's broadcast "The Debt of Germany to European Civilization"; various cards and photographs, including one of 1st Lord Baldwin and Lucy, Lady Baldwin; Indian Comforts Fund bulletin and reports.
4 files.

Jan 1920-Jun 1949

121

Vellum scroll presented to LSA and AFA on their wedding from the Compatriots Club.
1 file.

16 Nov 1910

122

Letters to AFA, mainly on her engagement. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Loreburn [earlier Robert Reid]; Ermine Murray [later Ermine, Lady Elibank]; Charles Murray [later 2nd Lord Elibank] Sir James Sadler; Edith Lyttelton.
1 file.

Apr 1908-Nov 1911

123

Letters to AFA, mainly on her wedding. Correspondents include: Blanche, Lady Elibank; Herbert Henson [Canon of Westminster Abbey]; Edith Lyttelton; 1st Lord Roberts; Hamar Greenwood (4); 1st Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal [earlier Donald Smith]; Ermine Murray [later Ermine, Lady Elibank]; LSA (2); Dorothy, Lady Stanley (3); Jean, Lady Hamilton; Mabel, Lady Clifford of Chudleigh.
1 file.

Aug 1910-Jul 1921

124

AFA wedding ephemera. Cards, letters of acceptance and regret, order of service and reception menu.
1 file.

Apr 1908-Dec 1910

125

Mrs Dow's obituary. Texts, notes and press cuttings of AFA's obituaries for Mrs John Ball Dow (Mary Dow).
1 file.

Apr 1938

126

Letters concerning AFA's broken hip. Letters of sympathy from correspondents including: Sir Richard Nosworthy; Lady Katharine Seymour (2); Agatha, Lady Sligo; Pamela, Lady Lytton; Lord Somervell of Harrow.
1 file.

Mar 1958

127

Letters of sympathy received on the death of 'Sadie' Rodney. Letters on the death of AFA's sister Gladys Rodney [earlier Gladys Greenwood] with correspondents including: Elizabeth Goudge; Joan, Lady Altrincham [earlier Joan, Lady Grigg] (3); Michael Greenwood; 1st Lord Hailey; Joan, Lady Ingleby (2); 1st Lord Fairhaven [earlier Urban Huttleston Broughton]; Evelyn, Lady Mottistone; Pamela, Lady Lytton; Elizabeth, Lady Abingdon and Lindsey (2); [Alfred] Chester Beatty; Florence, Lady St Just; Rosamond, Lady Cary; Marigold, Lady Thurso [earlier Marigold, Lady Sinclair]; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan and Lady Dorothy Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton and Dorothy, Lady Stockton].
1 file.

Jun 1965-Feb 1966

128

AFA's correspondence concerning elections fought by LSA, 1922-45. Includes: election material and pamphlets on subjects including LSA's record as Secretary of State for India; report on the Indian Comforts Fund; text of statement by LSA on Indian policy; summaries of letters from constituents, 1939-45; some election material for Julian Amery's and Randolph Churchill's campaign at Preston [Lancashire]; election addresses; details of meetings; letters to AFA from constituency campaign workers and election programme for her, 1945; official constituency Christmas cards with photographs of the Amery family.
1 file.

Dec 1920-Jun 1945

129

AFA's correspondence concerning elections fought by LSA, 1922-45. Includes: election material and pamphlets on subjects including LSA's record as Secretary of State for India; copy of Hansard with LSA's statement on policy towards India (June 1945); summaries of letters from constituents, 1940-45; letters from constituents to AFA; annual report of the women's central committee of the divisional Conservative Association with lists of members and of the committee.
1 file.

Apr 1920-Jul 1945

130

Letters received by AFA, mainly in tribute to LSA. Correspondents include: Princess Alice, Lady Athlone; Joan, Lady Altrincham [earlier Joan, Lady Grigg] (2); Vera Astley-Rushton; [Alfred] Chester Beatty; Princess Marthe Bibesco (6); 1st Lord Brand; Sir Basil Blackwell [Chairman of B H Blackwell Limited]; Sir David Keir, Master of Balliol College, University of Oxford; Angela Bruce; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; [Adeline] Verena, Lady Clarendon (3); Sir Winston Churchill; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi (2); Anne Chamberlain (5); George Drew, High Commissioner for Canada in Britain; Lady Diana Cooper [Diana, Lady Norwich] (2); Ruby, Lady Carson; [Margaret] Hermione, Lady Cobbold; Cecilia Dawson (2); Joan, Lady Drogheda; Olive Diefenbaker; Sir Geoffrey Faber; Barbara, Lady Freyberg (2); Elizabeth Goudge (4); Charles de Gaulle; Yvonne de Gaulle (2); Louisa Haldane (3); Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe] (24); Sir Patrick Hannon; [Gertrude] Mary, Lady Humphrys (4); Ruth, Lady Lee of Fareham (2); Pamela, Lady Lytton; Agatha Mallowan [Dame Agatha Christie]; Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia (2); Violet Markham [Violet Carruthers]; Sir Philip Magnus; Vincent Massey (2); Violet, Lady Milner [earlier Lady Edward Cecil]; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton] (3); Sir Firoz Khan Noon, Prime Minister of Pakistan; Helen, Duchess of Northumberland (2); Sir Richard Nosworthy; Harry Oppenheimer (2); Sir Edward Peacock (3); Wilder Penfield, Director of the Montreal Neurological Institute; James Pope-Hennessy; Edgar Williams, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford; Sir Robert Rankin; Rachel, Lady Rankin (2); Freda, Lady Rotherwick; [Elizabeth] Dora, Lady Robertson; Sir [Henry] Victor Raikes (2); Christopher Sykes; Lady Katharine Seymour (2); Lord Somervell of Harrow (4); 'Enie' [Irene, Lady Stokes, earlier Irene Ionides] (2); Sir Campbell Stuart (2); Mabel Strickland; 4th Lord St Oswald [earlier Rowland Winn]; Agatha, Lady Sligo; Myron Taylor (2); Angela Thirkell (2); Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir [earlier Susan Buchan]; Bridget, Lady Tallents; Muriel, Lady du Maurier; Sarita, Lady Vansittart; 'Vicky' [Victor Weisz] on his cartoons of LSA for the Evening Standard; John Wheeler-Bennett; 1st Lord Kennet [earlier Edward Hilton Young]; Dame Rebecca West; Elizabeth, Lady Welensky; Dame Violet Wills (4).
2 files.

Nov 1955-Dec 1959

131

Letters received by AFA, mainly in tribute to LSA. Correspondents include: Marthe, Princess Bibesco (3); Yvonne de Gaulle (2); Sir Roderick Jones (2); Anne Chamberlain (5); Harry Oppenheimer (2); Pamela, Lady Lytton (5); 'Enie' Irene, Lady Stokes [earlier Irene Ionides] (3); Elizabeth Verwoerd; 1st Lord Amory; Nancy, Lady Astor; Queen Geraldine of Albania (2); John Sparrow, Warden of All Souls College, University of Oxford (2); Princess Alice, Lady Athlone; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; [Alfred] Chester Beatty; Sir James Butler; Sir Robert Black; Jacques Bardoux; Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens; Sir Winston Churchill; John Connell (2); [Adeline] Verena, Lady Clarendon; Patricia Curtis; Lyle, Lady Doidge; Beatrice, Lady Dunsany; [?] Mary, Duchess of Devonshire] (2); [?] Hope, Lady Dynevor (2); Sir Henry de Satge; Sir Claude Elliott; [Robert] Anthony Eden, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Avon]; Harry Edwards, the Spiritual Healing Sanctuary (3); Barbara, Lady Freyberg; Elizabeth Goudge (5); Amy Halford (5); Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe] (8); 2nd Lord Hailsham [earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; [Gertrude] Mary, Lady Humphrys (2); 1st Lord Hailes [earlier Patrick Buchan-Hepburn]; Sir William Haley [Editor of the Times]; 1st Lord Kennet [earlier Edward Hilton Young] (3); Gerald Larkin (7); Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd (2); 5th Lord Listowel [earlier Lord Ennismore]; Muriel, Lady du Maurier (2); Richard Meinertzhagen; Vincent Massey [Governor-General of Canada] on the success of Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Canada; Violet Markham [Violet Carruthers]; Ranald Macdonald (4); [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Sir Edward Peacock; Dorothy Rothschild; Sir Harry Railing; Sir [Henry] Victor Raikes; Lord Somervell of Harrow (2); Sir Gerald Slade (2); Lady Katharine Seymour; Agatha, Lady Sligo; 1st Lord Samuel; 'Top' [3rd Lord Selborne, earlier Lord Wolmer]; 4th St Oswald [earlier Rowland Winn]; Mary, Lady Swinton [earlier Mary Lloyd-Greame and Mary Cunliffe-Lister]; Duncan Duncan-Sandys; James Stuart; Michael Trappes-Lomax; Maud, Lady Templewood [earlier Maud, Lady Hoare]; Angela Thirkell; Myron Taylor; Oliver Woods; Dame Violet Wills (3); Henry Andrews, on the letter from LSA to Lionel Curtis which AFA had lent to his wife, Dame Rebecca West; Geoffrey Winthrop Young. Also includes book of tributes to 1st Lord Norwich [earlier Alfred Duff Cooper].
2 files.

Dec 1941-Apr 1961

132

Assorted notes, cards and letters to AFA. Correspondents include: 10th Duke of Beaufort [earlier Lord Worcester]; Anne Chamberlain. Also includes: essays from schoolgirls on a visit of a delegation of teachers to Canada.
1 file.

Dec 1929-Nov 1938

133

Assorted pamphlets, cards and letters to AFA. Correspondents include: Sir Harold Hartley on his pamphlet "Balliol Men"; [Margaret] Osla Henniker-Major; Eric Abbott, Dean of Westminster; 2nd Lord Hailsham [earlier Quintin Hogg, later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; Sir James Gunn on giving his portrait of LSA to the National Portrait Gallery (2); [Charles] Kingsley Adams [Director, Keeper and Secretary of the National Portrait Gallery]. Also includes: copy of Sir Harold Hartley's "Balliol Men"; addresses from All Souls College, University of Oxford, consisting of one given by LSA for Francis Pember and 1st Lord Simon, and one in tribute to LSA and Sir Dougal Malcolm, given by 1st Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin].
1 file.

Mar 1954-Jun 1963

134

Miscellaneous letters to AFA. Correspondents include: 1st Lord Greenwood on subjects including finding a job for John Amery (13); Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (2); Sir Edward Grigg [later 1st Lord Altrincham] thanking AFA for helping him while his son had whooping cough; Sir Matthew Nathan; Sir Vincent Baddeley [Deputy Secretary, Admiralty] on Admiralty Christmas cards; Sir John Simon; James Welldon sympathising on their troubles with John Amery; Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe] on subjects including AFA receiving an honour (2); LSA (2); Chaim Weizmann; Sir William Goodenough; Ivy Chamberlain; Alice Balfour; [Cicely] Alice, Lady Salisbury; David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, thanking AFA for her encouragement and on his pleasure in LSA's friendship; 1st Lord Milner on bad news about the First World War and AFA finding somewhere to live in the country (4); Sir [James] Percy Fitzpatrick; Sir James Barrie; Mary Ward [Mrs Humphry Ward]; King Peter II of Yugoslavia (2); Philip Crawshaw, Assistant Secretary to the Over-Seas League, congratulating AFA on receiving the Crown of India; Sir William Currie on AFA's honour; [Ada] Edwina, Countess Roberts [earlier Ada Edwina Lewin] on AFA's honour; Blanche, Lady Lloyd on AFA's honour; Baron Emile de Cartier de Marchienne [Belgian Ambassador to Britain] on AFA's honour; Hollis Burrows, Deputy Secretary of the Indian Comforts Fund (2); Clementine Churchill on AFA's honour; 1st Lord Birdwood on AFA's honour; Ruth, Lady Currie; Francis Turnbull [Principal Private Secretary to LSA], passing on the congratulations of 1st Lord Wavell [Viceroy of India]; 'Enie' [Irene], Lady Stokes [earlier Irene Ionides]; Maximilian Lobkowitz, Czech Ambassador to Britain; Marie, Lady Willingdon; Marjory, Lady Wheeler; Sir Orme Sargent, Foreign Office, wishing Julian Amery well in Greece; 'Top' [3rd Lord Selborne, earlier Lord Wolmer], wishing Julian Amery well; [Ethel] Marian Casey, on Julian Amery's arrival in Egypt; Archduke Robert of Austria; Sir Ernest Oppenheimer; Oliver Lyttelton [later 1st Lord Chandos]; Ethel, Lady Desborough (2); Edwina, Lady Mountbatten; 17th Duke of Alba; Arthur Bryant; Estella, Lady Cave; Anne Chamberlain. Also includes text of broadcast by AFA for the Indian Comforts Fund and of a letter from LSA to the press on the Anschluss between Germany and Austria, 1938.
2 files.

Oct 1910-Mar 1948

135

Miscellaneous notes, quotations and correspondence. Correspondents include: Sir Wilfrid Laurier; Julian Amery; Pamela, Lady Lytton (2); Sir William Goodenough; [William] Mackenzie King; Elizabeth Goudge (2); [Cicely] Alice, Lady Salisbury; LSA; Lady Katharine Seymour, lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, passing on the Queen's thanks for AFA's sympathy [on the death of King George VI]; [?] Mary, Duchess of Devonshire (2); Denholm Fraser [Political aide to the Secretary of State for India] regretting that LSA was leaving the India Office; [Adeline] Verena, Lady Clarendon; John Biggs-Davison; Dame Meriel Talbot. Also includes: various notes, quotations and reflections by AFA; press cuttings; poems by Sir Ronald Storrs and Sir Robert Vansittart; order of memorial service for 1st Lord Greenwood.
1 file.

Dec 1907-Oct 1952

136

'Reflections of Adelisa', vol.I. Notes and writing by AFA, including: AFA's opinion of Winston Churchill and an account of her conversation with him during the war, on John Amery, India, Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, the importance of understanding other countries, particularly relating to Stanley Baldwin's lack of knowledge of foreign affairs, the Chamberlain family, particularly [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain's failure to include LSA in his Cabinet and [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain's problem with Sir Leslie Wilson as Chief Whip and Churchill's good relationship with his own Chief Whip [? Sir Albert Edmondson, later 1st Lord Sandford]; account of a conversation with Sir James Barrie on subjects including his book "Sentimental Tommy", the Bronte sisters, women in general and a new idea for a book; letter from Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe] recalling the meeting with Barrie; a telegram of thanks from Winston Churchill; account of the state opening of Parliament, 1909; account of the parade for King Edward VII's official birthday, 1908; account of a reception given by Pamela McKenna at Admiralty House [London]; text of article on the Labour politician John Burns; text of an article on eligible bachelors in Parliament; poems.
1 file.

Aug 1908-May 1952

137

'Reflections of Adelisa', vol.II. Notes and writings by AFA, including: her diary for 1908; [?] speech notes on tariff reform; text of an article on "A true picture from Canadian small town life"; text of an article on David Lloyd George; memoir of AFA's first arrival in Britain and presentation at court; account of the state opening of Parliament, 1908; texts of articles on political house parties and on a reception held by Mary Lowther [later Mary, Lady Ullswater].
1 file.

Jan 1908-Feb 1910

138

Writings by AFA: "Old ones". Includes: recollections from AFA's time in St Vincent; account of the parade for King Edward VII's official birthday, 1908; account of a political reception held by Mary Lowther [later Mary, Lady Ullswater]; poems; account of a visit to the Gobelin tapestry works in France; notes for an article on the Governor-General of Canada at home, particularly relating to 4th Lord Grey; text of an article on "A true picture from Canadian small town life"; notes for an article on political hostesses.
1 file.

Jun 1908-Jan 1919

139

Writings by AFA. Includes: a description of Pourville, France; note on AFA's family history; poem by Julian Amery; text of an article on writing; text of an article on Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte.
1 file.

Aug 1935-c 1940

140

Indian Comforts Fund. Papers and correspondence on the work of the fund, with correspondents including: Sir Gordon Jolly [Chief Commissioner, Indian Red Cross War Organisation]; John Biggs-Davison, Indian Civil Service (2); Sir Halford Mackinder, congratulating AFA on being awarded the Crown of India; Claude Shepherd, Secretary of the Indian Comforts Fund. Also includes: minutes; pamphlet on the fund's war record; summary of work, 1944-45; note on occupational work in the Indian Military Hospital at Dornoch [Sutherlandshire, Scotland]; address book.
1 file.

May 1938-Dec 1945

141

AFA's India file. Papers and correspondence, with correspondents including: Sir Firoz Khan Noon, Defence Member of Viceroy's Executive Council, on subjects including Mohandas Gandhi breaking his fast, the American press correspondents in India, keeping Indian politics on a human, rather than spiritual level and the Indian princes' refusal to co-operate with the Government (2); Sir [Walter] Gordon Neale [political aide to LSA] on AFA opening the Indian Forces Club (3). Also includes: copies of Hansard on the Indian famine debate (October-November 1943); reports and summaries of work of the Indian Comforts Fund; invitation lists; collected impressions of India; knitting patterns for clothes to be sent to Indian prisoners of war; prints and texts of speeches by LSA on India; press cuttings on LSA, AFA's work and the Indian famine.
1 file.

Jun 1940-Nov 1945

142

India broadcast, miscellaneous letters and papers. Correspondents include: James Hertzog; LSA (2); Noel, Lady Norton on her domestic difficulties as the ambassador's wife in Greece; Mary, Duchess of Devonshire (3); Queen Geraldine of Albania; Freya Stark; Edwina, Lady Mountbatten, on subjects including congratulating AFA on receiving an honour (2); [Adeline] Verena, Lady Clarendon (2); Thanassis Aghnides, Greek Ambassador to Britain; Marina, Duchess of Kent; Ethel, Lady Desborough (2); Sir Robert Cary on subjects including the poor record of the Labour Government, Winston Churchill's impressive performance in the India debate and signs of age in Churchill (2); Charles de Gaulle; 1st Lord Birdwood (2); Pamela, Lady Lytton, on the death of 2nd Lord Lytton and an award to AFA (3); Mary, Lady Hudson [earlier Mary, Lady Northcliffe]; Lady Katharine Seymour; [Beatrice] Violet, Lady Leconfield; Rene Massigli, French Ambassador to Britain; Jan Smuts; Seyed Hassan Taqizadeh, Persian Ambassador to Britain; 1st Lord Fairhaven [earlier (Urban) Huttleston Broughton] congratulating AFA on being awarded the Crown of India; Sir Ernest Oppenheimer on AFA's award; Louisa Haldane; 1st Lord Marchwood [earlier (Frederick) George Penny] on AFA's award; Ethel, Lady Stonehaven; 1st Lord Lang of Lambeth; Katharine, Lady Scarbrough; Paul Patrick [Assistant Under-Secretary of State, India Office] on AFA's award; Ruby, Lady Carson, on AFA's award; Francis Turnbull [former Principal Private Secretary to LSA] on AFA's award; Duncan Duncan-Sandys on AFA's award. Also includes: text of a broadcast to India by AFA (1941); press cuttings; silk souvenir pages of the Malta Punch.
2 files.

Oct 1914-Dec 1947

143

Journal of AFA's visit to Greece.
1 file.

Mar 1947

144

Orders of service. Mainly material from memorial services, funerals and services of thanksgiving, with some invitations, cards and letters, including a letter from Lady [Helen] Cynthia Colville [Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary] thanking AFA for her sympathy on the queen's death.
2 files.

Dec 1913-Feb 1966

145

AFA's financial papers. Accounts, receipts and investment details, including a letter from [Alfred] Chester Beatty and letters from AFA's bank and solicitors.
1 file.

Jan 1928-Feb 1960

146

AFA and LSA's identity cards, food coupons, ration books and accounts.
1 file.

1914–1919

147

Notes for speeches. Mainly notes for speeches during LSA's election campaigns in his constituency of Sparkbrook, Birmingham [Warwickshire].
1 file.

Oct 1924-Aug 1944

148

Miscellaneous pamphlets and papers. Includes: details of shares transferred to Julian Amery; orders of service for memorial services; letters from correspondents including Sir Edward Peacock, 1st Lord Wavell, Viceroy of India, regretting that the Amerys were not coming out to India, 1st Lord Athlone, thanking AFA for her letter of sympathy on the death of Queen Mary, and Pamela, Lady Lytton; a signed photograph of Violet Markham [Violet Carruthers]; card in tribute to John Amery; letter from LSA giving an account of 1st Lord Roberts's funeral in France, 1914; report by Julian Amery on his visit to Central Africa and South Africa, 1955, particularly relating to the constitutional and economic position of Rhodesia [later Zambia and Zimbabwe].
1 file.

Nov 1914-Apr 1961

149

Miscellaneous letters, pamphlets and papers. Includes: letters from Gladys Rodney [earlier Gladys Greenwood] (4), LSA, and Geoffrey Amery, from Ruhleben prisoner-of-war camp, Germany; AFA's impressions of Malta.
1 file.

Nov 1912-Sep 1925

150

Miscellaneous letters, pamphlets and papers. Correspondents include: Gladys Rodney [earlier Gladys Greenwood] on a memorial service for Mary Greenwood; Julian Amery; AFA, writing to her mother; Thomas Marlowe [Editor of the Daily Mail] on AFA's writing. Also includes: various texts by AFA, including an article on how the First World War affected the political hostess.
1 file.

Feb 1900-Sep 1954

151

Miscellaneous letters, pamphlets and papers. Includes: poems kept by AFA; cards; postcards; newspaper reviews of Julian Amery's "Approach March"; letters from individuals including Muriel, Lady du Maurier; orders of service for memorial services.
1 file.

Jul 1929-Jul 1976

152

Miscellaneous letters, pamphlets and papers. Includes cards postcards and clothing coupons.
1 file.

Sep 1926-Dec 1971

153

Miscellaneous letters, pamphlets and papers. Includes: cards (including one card from Clementine Churchill); postcards; menus and programmes; letters from Henry de Satge [Ceremonial Secretary, Colonial Office] and LSA on the presentation of women from the Dominions at Court, with Dominions Office memoranda and lists of presentations for 1927; print of Winston Churchill's broadcast on the death of King George VI; account of a journey from Germany to London in August 1914; text of a speech by Count Wladimir d'Ormesson on awarding the Legion d'Honneur to Princess Marthe Bibesco; text of a speech by [John] Jeremy Thorpe at the memorial service for Sir [Edward] Louis Spears; photographs.
2 files.

Dec 1909-Jan 1975

154

Letter from AFA on the death of John Amery. Letter from AFA to Mrs M A Howard of Birmingham [Warwickshire], on their meeting with John Amery in prison and his reasons for supporting Germany and for pleading guilty to treason.
1 file.

1946

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