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Churchill/SPRS 8 contains:
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17 "Assignment to Catastrophe": source material
18 "Assignment to Catastrophe": source material
19 "Assignment to Catastrophe": source material
20 "Assignment to Catastrophe": source material
21 "Assignment to Catastrophe": source material
22 "Assignment to Catastrophe": pre-publication correspondence
23 "Assignment to Catastrophe": publishing agreements and correspondence on typing work
24 "Assignment to Catastrophe": reviews and correspondence
25 "Assignment to Catastrophe": Heinemann
26 "Assignment to Catastrophe": general literary correspondence
27 "Assignment to Catastrophe": reviews
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The Papers of Sir Edward Spears

Title "Assignment to Catastrophe": pre-publication correspondence
Reference SPRS 8/22
(former reference: SPRS 2/18 Box 1)
Covering Dates 1948–1953
Extent and Medium 2 files
Content and context

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.

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