| Title |
Literary |
| Reference |
SPRS 8 |
| Covering Dates |
c 1917–1978 |
| Extent and Medium |
15.5 archive boxes |
|
| Content and context |
Draft texts, source material and correspondence on books by ELS, including: his works on the First World War, "Liaison 1914" (1930) on his experiences during the Allied retreat in France in 1914, and "Prelude to Victory" (1939), on the Nivelle offensive of 1917; "Assignment to Catastrophe" (1954), ELS's account of events in France in 1940, consisting of "Prelude to Dunkirk" and "The Fall of France", including a large amount of original and copied source material from his work as Winston Churchill's personal representative to the French Government in 1940, such as messages between the British and French, and ELS's notes of meetings between the British and the French Supreme War Council; "Two Men who Saved France" (1966), a study of Marshal Philippe Pétain, particularly Petain's account of the mutinies in the French Army in 1917 and General Charles de Gaulle in 1940; "The Picnic Basket" (1967) and various other short stories, particularly from the First World War and ELS's childhood; "Fulfilment of a Mission" (1977), ELS's memoirs of his time in Syria and the Lebanon, published after his death; and "The Maurice Case", a defence by Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears] of her father, Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, Director of Military Operations, Imperial General Staff, 1915-18, and his claim that ministerial statements on British forces having been increased, rather than decreased, before the German spring offensive of 1918 were false. |
| Churchill/SPRS 8 contains: |
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1
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Semi-fictional typescript diary by ELS and MS on the Paris peace conference. Includes an explanatory note from ELS's heir, Colonel Aylmer.
1 file. |
c 1917-c 1919 |
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2
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"Liaison 1914": correspondence. Correspondence with ELS's British, French and American publishers on subjects including quotations from the book, copyright ownership, film rights, royalties and the book's translation into French. . Also includes correspondence with readers including: Sir Arthur Bryant; 2nd Lord Maugham (2); Sir Marshal Theodore McEvoy; Major-General Sir George Aston; Edith Wharton.
1 file. |
1931–1968 |
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3
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"Liaison 1914": new edition. Correspondence with ELS's publishers Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited on the 1968 reissue of his book. Also includes correspondence with reviewers and readers including: John Terraine; John Keegan; 1st Lord Alexander of Tunis; 1st Lord Boyd of Merton [earlier Alan Lennox-Boyd]; Sir Colin Coote; A J P Taylor; Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens (2); John Colville.
1 file. |
1966–1973 |
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4
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"Prelude to Victory": correspondence. Correspondence, particularly with Rupert Hart-Davis, Director of Jonathan Cape Limited, and with other correspondents including: [Willoughby] Clive Garsia on his book "A Key to Victory" (2); [Alfred] Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich]; Cyril Connolly, Editor of Horizon, asking ELS to write an article for the magazine; Philip Pilditch; Margot, Lady Oxford and Asquith on subjects including agreeing with ELS's critical view of David Lloyd George; Field Marshal 10th Lord Cavan; 1st Lord Tweedsmuir [earlier John Buchan]; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], Macmillan and Company Limited; Brigadier-General Hugh Headlam (2); Walter Ross Taylor; Cyril Falls, Military Correspondent of the Times and member of the Historical Section (Military Branch) Committee of Imperial Defence (10); John Kitto, Librarian, House of Commons; Edward Beddington-Behrens; Winston Churchill (2); General Sir Walter Kirke [Commander-in-Chief of Home Forces] on "Prelude to Victory", also regretting that he had been unable to find a position for ELS; Colin Coote; [Herbert] Jonathan Cape, Chairman and founder of Jonathan Cape Limited; [Henry] David Margesson; Edward Marsh; Hamish Hamilton, Chairman and Managing Director of Hamish Hamilton Limited, Publishers; Major-General Sir Frederick Sykes; Edward Bridges, Secretary to the Cabinet, on publishing secret documents (6); Leslie Bradley, Director-General of the Imperial War Museum (2); Sir [George] Leslie Clive; Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds, Officer in charge of Military Branch, Historical Section, Committee of Imperial Defence (7); Basil Liddell-Hart (2); 1st Lord Kemsley [Chairman, Kemsley Newspapers, Limited, earlier James Berry]; Arthur Watson, Managing Editor of the Daily Telegraph; Colonel Philip Shears, Commandant Army Technical School (Boys) (18). Includes annotated draft texts from "Liaison 1914"; memorandum of a conversation with General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien, General Officer Commanding 2nd Army Corps, on the retreat from Mons [Belgium], 1916; proofs, lists of illustrations, notes and publishing agreement for "Prelude to Victory".
3 files. |
1934–1953 |
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5
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Literary correspondence. Correspondence with readers and publishers, particularly comments on and requests for permission to quote from "Prelude to Victory". Correspondents include: Sir James Marshall-Cornwall (2); John Colville (3); Stephen Roskill (2); Major-General Eric Sixsmith; Claude Lancaster; Professor Sir Douglas Savory (2); Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Farrar-Hockley; Rupert Hart-Davis [Director of Jonathan Cape Limited, then of Rupert Hart-Davis, Limited, Publishers] (10); Sir Edward Marsh (3); [Herbert] Jonathan Cape, Chairman and founder of Jonathan Cape Limited; [Catherine] Comfort Hart-Davis [earlier Comfort Borden-Turner] (3); [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], Macmillan and Company Limited; Richard Denman; [Willoughby] Clive Garsia. Also includes: texts of chapter 16 from "Liaison 1914"; publishing agreement for "Prelude to Victory" [under its provisional title of "A Damned Enterprise"].
1 file. |
1939–1973 |
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6
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Literary correspondence. Correspondence with representatives of Harper and Brothers, publishers, and Hamish Hamilton Limited, particularly on articles by ELS and a proposed Arabian anthology. Also includes text of ELS's article "Is Anglo-Franco-American co-operation possible in the Middle East?".
1 file. |
1946–1947 |
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7
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Annotated copy of Paul Reynaud's "La France a sauvé L'Europe", Volume 2.
1 file; Fragile.. |
1946 |
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8
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Hand-written index on the First World War and Second World War.
1 file. |
c 1950 |
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9
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Includes: copy of a letter from [ELS] to [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, protesting at the partition of Czechoslovakia; rough notes; notes on the Cabinet of Paul Reynaud; extracts from ELS's diaries, September 1939-June 1940.
1 file. |
1938–1950 |
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10
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Minutes of meetings and telegrams on the situation in France, including: telegrams between ELS, Winston Churchill and Major-General Sir Hastings Ismay [Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet]; notes of a meeting on the military situation, between Marshal Philippe Petain [Minister of State], ELS and Major Archdale [British liaison officer with French northern command]; notes of meetings with Paul Reynaud; Prime Minister of France; notes of conversations with Petain, General Louis Colson, head of the French War Office, and Georges Mandel; rough minutes of the meeting between the British and French at the Supreme War Council, 31 May; telegram from General Joseph Vuillemin, Commander of the French Air Force, on the need for British reinforcements.
1 file. |
24 May 1940–31 May 1940 |
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11
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Documents relating to events in France, including: notes on use of the Royal Air Force; messages on the military situation; telegrams, letters and accounts of telephone calls between ELS, Winston Churchill [Prime Minister] and Major-General Sir Hastings Ismay [Deputy Secretary (Military) to War Cabinet] on subjects including the evacuation of British forces from Dunkirk and anti-tank weapons; messages between Paul Reynaud; Prime Minister of France and Churchill; telegram from General Joseph Vuillemin, Commander of the French Air Force, on the need for British reinforcements; note from General Maxime Weygand [Commander-in-Chief, French Army] on Britain's refusal to help.
1 file. |
01 June 1940–07 June 1940 |
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12
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Documents relating to events in France, including: ELS's diary entries; account of a meeting between Winston Churchill, Prime Minister and Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France at Tours (13 June); later letters from Sir Ronald Campbell [former British Ambassador to France] and Sir [William] Henry Mack [former Head of French Department, Foreign Office] commenting on ELS's text and contemporary events.
1 file. |
11 June 1940–14 June 1940 |
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13
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Documents relating to events in France, including: copies of telephone messages from ELS and Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France on the decision to declare an armistice; extracts from ELS's diary on his departure from France with General Charles de Gaulle.
1 file. |
15 June 1940–18 June 1940 |
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14
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Documents relating to events in France, including: notes of meetings between the British and the French Supreme War Council, May-June; copies of telegrams from ELS and Paul Reynaud, Prime Minister of France; press cuttings on the memoirs of Winston Churchill and General Maxime Weygand.
1 file. |
31 May 1940–16 June 1940 |
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15
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Rough manuscript notes on France, including: the Vichy war trials at Riom on responsibility for the events of 1940; the use of tanks; morale; organization of command; authority of military chiefs; the air force; a biography of Marshal Philippe Petain.
1 file. |
c 1948 |
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16
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Notes on the Royal Air Force and French air force, September 1939-June 1940.
1 file. |
1948–1950 |
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17
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Documents relating to events in France, including: notes on events as seen by Major Archdale [British liaison officer with French northern command]; account of the fighting by the 4th Armoured Division, May-June 1940.
1 file. |
1941–1950 |
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18
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Documents relating to events in France, including: note by Major-General Harold Redman, former member of the War Cabinet Secretariat, on the Paris Secretariat in 1939-40; letters from Armando da Gama Ochoa, from the Portuguese Legation in Paris, to Arnold Inman, on the situation in Paris and reasons for the fall of France (1937-41); press cartoons; information from Maurice Dejean on German sympathisers in the cabinet of Paul Reynaud [Prime Minister of France]; press cuttings with letters from Field Marshal 1st Lord Ironside and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall on the fall of France; supplement to the London Gazette with despatches from 6th Lord Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force, 1939-40.
1 file. |
1937–1952 |
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19
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Documents relating to the visit to the Maginot Line in France by Winston Churchill with ELS, including correspondence between Churchill, General Alphonse Georges, General Maurice Gamelin and ELS.
1 file. |
1939 |
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20
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Correspondence with Winston Churchill on subjects including: ELS's liaison role; the French view that defeat was inevitable; Churchill's own memoirs and the accuracy of Charles de Gaulle's account of events as a source.
1 file. |
1939–1948 |
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21
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": source material. Rough notes on "The Opposition", mainly comparisons between the French and German forces.
1 file. |
1939-c 1952 |
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22
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": pre-publication correspondence. Correspondence, mainly with publishers William Heinemann Limited, Rupert Hart-Davis, Director of Rupert Hart-Davis Limited and ELS's American literary agents. Other correspondents commenting on ELS's draft include: Cyril Falls, Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford (2); Winston Churchill, on subjects including regretting that he could not write the preface (2); Clementine Churchill (2); [Herbert] Jonathan Cape, Chairman and founder of Jonathan Cape Limited (4); Major-General William Donovan; Leo Amery; Sir William Strang [Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office] (3); 1st Lord Winster [earlier Reginald Fletcher]; "Pug" [1st Lord Ismay, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations] (2); Sir Norman Brook [Secretary of the Cabinet, later 1st Lord Normanbrook]; 8th Lord Lansdowne [earlier George Mercer-Nairne] (3); Sir Ronald Campbell [former Ambassador to France] (6); Major-General Harold Redman [former member of the War Cabinet Secretariat] (3); Sir [William] Henry Mack [former Head of French Department, Foreign Office] (2); Major-General John Woodall (3); Lieutenant-General Sir John Swayne; Air Chief Marshal Sir Douglas Evill (2); Maurice Petherick; Ernest Passant, Director of Research and Librarian and Keeper of the Papers, Foreign Office; Sir Robert Bird; Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Longmore; Major-General Langley Browning.
2 files. |
1948–1953 |
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23
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": publishing agreements and correspondence on typing work.
1 file. |
1952–1958 |
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24
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": reviews and correspondence. Letters from readers, reviewers and publishers, particularly William Heinemann Limited, with correspondents including: "Pug" [1st Lord Ismay] advising against bringing out a version in France; 1st Lord Kennet [earlier Edward Hilton Young]; Michael Howard [Lecturer in War Studies, University of London]; Duncan Duncan-Sandys; Major-General Gerald Verney (3); Cecil Woodham-Smith; Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone [earlier Quintin Hogg]; Adlai Stevenson; Professor Sir Douglas Savory; Sir John Elliot (3); [Arnold] John Smith; Richard Casey; Major-General Sir Colin Jardine; Charles Mott-Radclyffe; Sir Alexander Cadogan [Chairman of the BBC]; Sir [Sigismund] David Waley; Cyril Asquith; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken].
2 files. |
1954–1959 |
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25
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": Heinemann. Correspondence, mainly with readers and also with ELS's publishers, William Heinemann Limited. Correspondents include: Adlai Stevenson; Brigadier Harold Sandilands; Brigadier-General Sir James Edmonds (2); John Hall (2); Sir Eugen Millington-Drake; General George Marshall; Professor Sir Douglas Savory (3); 5th Lord Rayleigh [earlier John Strutt]; Christina Foyle; Sir Arthur Evans. Also includes correspondence with ELS's solicitors on his family settlement, royalties and copyright.
3 files. |
1953–1958 |
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26
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": general literary correspondence. Correspondents include Sir Eugen Millington-Drake.
1 file. |
1954–1961 |
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27
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": reviews. Correspondence and texts of reviews.
1 file. |
1955 |
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28
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": The Reprint Society. Correspondence on the reissue of ELS's book in one volume by the Reprint Society Limited.
1 file. |
1955–1956 |
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29
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": foreign publishers. Correspondence and royalty statements.
1 file. |
1955–1972 |
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30
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": later correspondence. Correspondents, mainly asking permission to quote from ELS's book, include: Wing Commander E B Fielden on subjects including whether he flew ELS and General Charles de Gaulle to Britain in 1940 (13); Maurice Cowling; Dennis Wheatley (2); A J P Taylor; Florence Amery; Michael Foot; General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall; Robert Aron (14); Professor Sir Douglas Savory; Julian Amery, Minister of Aviation, on the aircraft which flew de Gaulle to Britain.
1 file. |
1960–1974 |
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31
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"Assignment to Catastrophe": requests to quote.
1 file. |
1974 |
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32
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Correspondence and source material for book on the origins of the Free French. Correspondents include: James Thomas, First Lord of the Admiralty [later 1st Lord Cilcennin] on using papers [on the British attack on the French Navy in 1940]; Sir Norman Brook [Secretary to the Cabinet, later 1st Lord Normanbrook] on using the papers of the War Cabinet Committee on the Resistance; John Colville, Joint Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister. Source material includes: telegrams on action to be taken against hostile French ships; correspondence on liaison with the Free French over security issues, including memoranda by Kenneth Younger and Major Archdale [British liaison officer with French northern command].
1 file. |
1941–1955 |
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33
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Charles de Gaulle. Papers on de Gaulle, including: correspondence on de Gaulle's memorial service; Free French pamphlets on Vichy France, the economy and de Gaulle (1942); an account of de Gaulle's departure for Africa from RAF Calshot [Hampshire] during the war; letters between ELS and de Gaulle, on subjects including ELS's congratulations to de Gaulle [on becoming President of France] (1958) and de Gaulle's mention of ELS in his memoirs.
1 file. |
1942–1970 |
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34
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Notes on France. Notes on events in May-September 1940, and draft texts [? for "Two men who saved France"] on General Charles de Gaulle following his arrival in Britain and events leading to the British attack on the French fleet at Oran [Algeria].
2 files. |
c 1955-c 1970 |
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35
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Correspondence with publishers. Correspondence with readers and publishers on books and articles by ELS. Particularly relates to Marshal Philippe Petain's account of the mutinies in the French Army in 1917, later published in ELS's "Two men who saved France".
1 file. |
1958–1967 |
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36
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"Une crise morale de la Nation Française en Guerre". Paper written by Marshal Philippe Petain on the events of 16 April-23 October 1917, particularly on the spread of pacifism in France, lack of morale, strategic errors and mutinies among the French troops. Later published in ELS's "Two men who saved France".
1 file. |
1926 |
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37
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"Two men who saved France": text. Text of ELS's "Petain and the French Mutinies".
1 file. |
1966 |
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38
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"Two men who saved France": texts. Texts of "General Petain in 1917" [incomplete] and "General de Gaulle in 1940".
1 file. |
1966 |
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39
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"Two men who saved France": page proofs.
1 file. |
1966 |
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40
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"Two men who saved France": correspondence. Correspondence, mainly with readers and writers asking permission to quote from ELS's book, including: Arthur Marder [Professor of History, University of California] (12); 1st Lord Gladwyn [earlier Gladwyn Jebb]; David Ogilvy; Sir Eugen Millington-Drake (2); Sir Archibald James; Quintin Hogg [later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; John Cordle; 6th Lord Carrington [earlier Peter Carington]; 5th Lord Caledon; Sir [Geoffrey] Miles Clifford; John Terraine (2); Lord Boothby; 1st Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton]; Nigel Lawson, Editor of the Spectator (2); Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester; Edmund de Rothschild (2); Victor Bonham-Carter, Society of Authors. Also includes texts of a BBC review by John Terraine and of a French interview with ELS.
1 file. |
1966–1974 |
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41
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"Two men who saved France": correspondence with American publishers. Includes royalty statements, reviews and the publishing agreement.
1 file. |
1966–1973 |
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42
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"Two men who saved France": photographs. Photographs of Marshal Philippe Pétain and General Charles de Gaulle, with inscriptions to ELS.
1 file. |
c 1966 |
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43
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"The Picnic Basket": typescript.
1 file. |
c 1967 |
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44
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"The Picnic Basket": correspondence. Correspondence with publishers and readers on "The Picnic Basket" and also "Liaison 1914" (reissued 1968). Correspondents include: Lord Morpeth [later 13th Lord Carlisle]; Edmund de Rothschild (4); Sir Alvary Gascoigne; Lord Boothby; Lord Chelmer [earlier Eric Edwards]; Sir Arthur Bryant (3); David Ogilvy; 1st Lord Chandos [earlier Oliver Lyttelton]; Sir Roger Chance; General Sir James Marshall-Cornwall; Adam Hart-Davis; Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester; Sir Edward Beddington-Behrens; Sir Geoffrey Shakespeare; Sir Gerald Nabarro; 1st Lord Milverton [earlier Arthur Richards]; Quintin Hogg [later Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]. Also includes texts of reviews by John Terraine and Sir Arthur Bryant.
1 file. |
1967–1974 |
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45
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The General's Stories. Texts of stories, some included in "The Picnic Basket" and many relating to the First World War: "A Dream"; "Prayer"; "With de Gaulle from Bordeaux to Dakar"; "La Fete a Jean le Bon" on the Battle of Poitiers; "Nery"; "A Perfect Thing Apart"; an account of 1st Lord Bertie of Thame, British Ambassador to France, in 1917-18; "The Marquis de Castellane"; "This is the story of a little watch", on General Henri Gouraud in 1918; a portrait of Raymond Poincaré; "Panic"; a story on 1st Duke of Marlborough; "On a paper written by Mary Borden" on a meeting between MS and Albert Einstein; "This is the story of how I became a Member of Parliament"; "At the beginning of the last war", a portrait of General [René] Edgard de Larminat; "The Mouse"; a study on religion; the story of Boris Savinkov; "The End of Spears" on the work of MS's Ambulance Unit in North Africa; "Forain and Misia Sert" on the political cartoonist Jean-Louis Forain; "The invisible man"; "This story is a pendant to my book, 'The Fall of France'" on tracing the pilot who brought de Gaulle and ELS from Bordeaux to Britain in 1940; "1st Story for the Peti", draft stories from ELS's childhood written for his son Michael Spears; "Ibn Saud"; "One of the nicest men"; extract from "Gaidic". Also includes correspondence with John Terraine on a possible biography of ELS and correspondence with friends and publishers including Cass Canfield, Senior Editor, Harper and Row (2) and Alan Hodge, Editor of History Today, on ELS's short stories, with press cuttings on the suicide of General [René] Edgard de Larminat.
3 files. |
c 1925–1970 |
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46
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Writings and cuttings. Rough notes, scraps of stories, quotations and press cuttings from ELS's "black book".
2 files. |
c 1927-c 1957 |
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47
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Writings and cuttings. Rough notes, scraps of stories, quotations and press cuttings from ELS's "black book".
2 files. |
c 1932-c 1966 |
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48
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Writings and cuttings. Rough notes, scraps of stories, quotations and press cuttings from ELS's "black book".
1 file. |
c 1959-c 1969 |
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49
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Notes. Notes taken from: English stories; Novels; Poetry; Proverbs; Quotations; French quotations.
1 file. |
c 1970 |
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50
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"Fulfilment of a Mission": correspondence. Correspondence on the publication and writing of ELS's memoirs of his time in Syria and the Lebanon, with correspondents including: Philip Ziegler [Editorial Director, Collins publishers]; Sir Charles Mott-Radclyffe [Liaison Officer in Syria, 1941]; Sir [Ernest] Llewellyn Woodward on his official history of British foreign policy during the war (2).
1 file. |
1964–1975 |
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51
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"Fulfilment of a Mission": texts, notes and source material. Includes: ELS short story "The End of Spears" on the work of MS's Ambulance Unit in North Africa; draft chapters; telegrams on the French coup in the Lebanon (November 1943) and an interview between Oliver Lyttelton [Minister of State in the Middle East, later 1st Lord Chandos] and General Charles de Gaulle on de Gaulle's refusal to accept the Armistice with the forces of Vichy France (1941); copies of the agreement between Lyttelton and de Gaulle on collaboration between the British and Free French in the Middle East.
1 file. |
1941–1973 |
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52
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"Fulfilment of a Mission": drafts and omitted passages.
1 file. |
1972–1974 |
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53
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"Fulfilment of a Mission": correspondence with publishers. Correspondents include Sir William Collins, Chairman of Collins publishers.
1 file. |
1974–1975 |
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54
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"Fulfilment of a Mission": correspondence. Correspondence on the posthumous publication of ELS's memoirs, mainly with ELS's literary agents, representatives of Leo Cooper Limited, publishers, and Duff Hart-Davis, on finding a biographer for ELS. Also includes corrected drafts and of forewords by John Terraine and Duff Hart-Davis.
1 file. |
1976–1978 |
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55
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"The Aylmers". Typescript (incomplete) for ELS' book on the history of his grandmother's family, plus rough notes.
1 file. |
c 1955-c 1970 |
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56
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"The Maurice Case": Papa. Correspondence, mainly between Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears] and Victor Bonham-Carter on his chapter on Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice in his book "Soldier True". Other correspondents include: Joel Hurstfield [Professor of Modern History, University College London] on finding a biographer for Maurice (5); Julian Amery, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War, on finding correspondence between Maurice and David Lloyd George in 1918; Sir [Benjamin] Ifor Evans, Provost of University College London, on finding a biographer for Maurice (3); 1st Lord Templewood [earlier Samuel Hoare] declining to get involved in further controversy.
1 file. |
1951–1964 |
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57
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"The Maurice Case": correspondence with the Dictionary of National Biography. Correspondence, mainly between Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears], Edgar Williams, Editor of the Dictionary and Major-General Sir John Kennedy, author of the entry for Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice. Other correspondents include: Roy Jenkins; Sir Colin Coote (3).
1 file. |
1967–1968 |
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58
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"The Maurice Case": A J P Taylor and Sir Dingle Foot. Correspondence between Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears], Taylor and Foot, with cuttings of letters to the press by Taylor and Foot on the Maurice case. Other correspondents include John Junor, Editor of the Sunday Express.
1 file. |
1964–1967 |
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59
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"The Maurice Case": copies from John Terraine. Includes draft of chapter 3, "The Story of the Crisis of May, 1918", and the foreword, corrected by Terraine, with copies of source material.
1 file. |
1967 |
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60
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"The Maurice Case": Frances Stevenson. Correspondence between Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears] and Frances, Lady Lloyd George [earlier Frances Stevenson], on her chapter on the Maurice case in her autobiography, "The Years that are Past". Other correspondents include: Sir Harry Verney; George Hutchinson, Managing Director of the Spectator. Also includes letters from Nancy Maurice published in the Spectator on the destruction of War Office papers prior to the Maurice case.
1 file. |
1956–1968 |
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61
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"The Maurice Case": biographical material. Cuttings etc on the life and career of Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice and the Maurice case, including copies of cabinet papers on the military situation, December 1917- January 1918.
1 file. |
1918–1968 |
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62
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"The Maurice Case": Michael Maurice. Correspondence between Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears] and her brother Michael on "The Maurice Case".
1 file. |
1965–1970 |
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63
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"The Maurice Case": Professor Joan Robinson. Correspondence between Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears] and her sister Joan on "The Maurice Case", with other correspondents including Lord Kahn and Stephen Roskill.
1 file. |
1966–1970 |
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64
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"The Maurice Case": Phyllis Maurice. Correspondence between Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears] and her sister Phyllis on "The Maurice Case".
1 file. |
1968–1970 |
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65
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"The Maurice Case": correspondence with publishers. Correspondence between Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears], representatives of Leo Cooper Limited, publishers, and her literary agents, mainly on difficulties with her family over the book.
1 file. |
1968–1970 |
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66
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"The Maurice Case": correspondence with solicitors. Correspondence between Nancy Maurice [later Nancy, Lady Spears] and her solicitors, mainly on difficulties with her family over the book.
1 file. |
1968–1970 |
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67
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"The Maurice Case": correspondence with Leo Cooper. Correspondence, mainly with the publishers Leo Cooper Limited, with other correspondents including: 10th Duke of Northumberland; Professor Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard; Sir Colin Coote (5); Lord Evans of Hungershall; Correlli Barnett; Roy Jenkins. Also includes cuttings of reviews.
1 file. |
1968–1974 |
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68
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Major General Sir Frederick Maurice's papers. Correspondence on the deposit of Maurice's papers, particularly those used in "The Maurice Case", at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College, London. Correspondents include: General Sir John Hackett, Principal of King's College (3); Kenneth Garside, Librarian of King's College (5).
1 file. |
1972–1975 |
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