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Typescript texts and drafts on subjects including: the slowness of the French withdrawal from Syria and Lebanon; the authoritarianism of the Labour Government; the Palestine problem; France’s debt to General Charles de Gaulle; ELS’s recent visit to the Middle East (October-November 1946).

Also includes correspondence with publishers and the press.

Scope and Contents Typescript texts, proofs and press cuttings on subjects including: a tribute to 1st Lord Ismay; General Charles de Gaulle; the Arab world and the West; Winston Churchill; a review of A W Kinglake’s "Eothen"; the nuclear deterrent; the French parliamentary crisis; a review of "A Soldier with the Arabs" by Sir John Glubb [former Officer Commanding Arab Legion, Transjordan [Jordan]]; increased pay for MPs; a review of Pierre Mendes-France’s book [? "Sept mois, dix-sept jours"]; the propaganda...

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Proofs of "Britain and the Levant Crises", "With de Gaulle from Bordeaux to Dakar" and draft text of "Dakar and de Gaulle".

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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.

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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.

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Copies and originals of correspondence on subjects including condolences on [the death of Anne de Gaulle], the first anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's death and the death of Randolph Churchill.

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Includes: broadcast by de Gaulle [Chief of Free French] on the BBC, with copies of telegrams, biographical notes on de Gaulle by ELS and letters from de Gaulle to ELS; correspondence on the British Military Mission to de Gaulle and on Mary, Lady Spears's appeal; papers on Winston Churchill's agreement with de Gaulle, directives, correspondence and memoranda.

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Correspondence between Churchill and de Gaulle, President of France, on subjects including messages of goodwill, including Churchill's congratulations on de Gaulle's election, a referendum on independence for Algeria and de Gaulle's survival of an assassination attempt, and various gifts of books and photographs.

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Papers and correspondence on Charles de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic] including: letter from de Gaulle on Winston Churchill’s visit to Algeria, 1944; Duff Cooper’s general reflections on de Gaulle in 1944; Cabinet paper giving an outline of relations between the Government and de Gaulle between June 1940 and June 1943.

Scope and Contents Diary. Subjects covered include: relationships with Churchill, the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Office; Cadogan's involvement in overseas diplomatic visits; ongoing disputes between the Soviet Union and Poland relating to borders and the Curzon Line; meetings and preparations for Operation Overlord and the D-Day landings; notes on the progress of the Italian Campaign and Allied progress in France, Belgium, and Greece; discussions on 'World Organisation' and post-war planning; concerns...

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents Includes birthday greetings, personal correspondence and papers on ELS’s will. Correspondents include: Edward Evans-Pritchard; Lord Ilford [earlier Geoffrey Hutchinson]; 1st Lord Boothby on subjects including thanking ELS for his congratulations on his marriage (2); "Peti" [Michael Spears]; Martin Gilbert on his book "The Roots of Appeasement" and on researching Anglo-French relations (3); Sir Alvery Gascoigne; 1st Lord Erroll of Hale; Quintin Hogg [later Lord...

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Typescript texts of interviews with the Associated Press, Arab News Agency and Lord Stansgate [Secretary of State for Air, earlier William Wedgwood Benn] on subjects including: the agreement between France and Britain allowing France to maintain troops in the Lebanon; General Charles de Gaulle’s qualities as a leader; the importance of Arab unity; the importance of maintaining good relations with the Arabs in Egypt and Palestine.

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ELS's journal kept during "Operation Menace", the Anglo-French landings at Dakar [Senegal], including a large number of copies of telegrams and correspondence from the same period between ELS and individuals including: Vice-Admiral Sir John Cunningham [Vice-Admiral Commanding First Cruiser Squadron]; Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice; General Charles de Gaulle; the Admiralty; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister.

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ELS's journal kept following "Operation Menace", the Anglo-French landings at Dakar [Senegal], including a large number of copies of telegrams and correspondence from the same period between ELS and individuals including: Major Desmond Morton [Personal Assistant to Winston Churchill]; MS; General Charles de Gaulle, Chief of Free French.

Also includes aerial photographs of the Dakar expedition.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: a visit to Scotland; ELS’s distress for Nancy during the bombing of London; his relations with General Charles de Gaulle [Chief of Free French]; the failure of the landings at Dakar [Senegal]; difficulties at the Syrian conference in Cairo [Egypt]; personal tensions with General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East]; ELS's frustration at his situation; MS being confined to hospital; de Gaulle’s reaction to the British terms for the armistice with the Vichy...

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Letters from Algiers and Paris [France] on subjects including: life in Algeria; Winston Churchill’s visit to Marrakesh [Morocco], Jan 1944 and Clementine Churchill’s view that he would die after the war; a visit by Mary, Lady Spears [earlier Mary Borden], Feb 1944; a visit from Martha Hemingway [Martha Gellhorn], Mar 1944; Charles de Gaulle ("Charlie Wormwood"); Randolph Churchill’s plane crashing, July 1944 and stay, Aug 1944; going to Italy, Aug 1944; life in Paris.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: the outbreak of war; directing the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit in France and its evacuation; ELS's departure for Dakar [Senegal] with General Charles de Gaulle and her concern for his position with the Government; bombing raids in London; taking the ambulance unit to the Levant; accounts of torture by the Gestapo in southern France; her view of de Gaulle's hostility to Britain; the unit's part in the victory parade in Paris; de Gaulle's ingratitude to ELS; her own...

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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].

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Cuttings on subjects including Charles de Gaulle and Ashanti Goldfields Corporation Limited.

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Cuttings from the French and Ghanaian press, on subjects including Charles de Gaulle and the events of June 1940.

Scope and Contents Reports by [Maurice] Harold Macmillan, Resident Minister at Allied Headquarters in North-West Africa [later 1st Lord Stockton] on subjects including: recognition of the French authorities in North Africa by other governments; the decline of General Henri Giraud, Commander-in-Chief of French forces in North Africa; changes to the French Cabinet; reaction to the arrests of Pierre Boisson, Marcel Peyrouton and Pierre Flandin, Vichy French Leaders, by the Free French; the Lebanon; Charles de...

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Subjects include: policy towards South Africa; the reunification of Germany; terrorism in Northern Ireland and the murder of Ian Gow; the Gulf War; Charles de Gaulle.

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Subjects discussed between Churchill, Charles de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government of the French Republic] and others include: arms supplies to French forces; the occupation of German territory; Syria and the Levant.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: differences in policy between Duff Cooper and Sir Edward Spears [former First Minister to Republics of Syria and the Lebanon] over Spears’s policy of helping the Arab states drive out the French; a suggestion that Prince Napoleon might marry Mary Churchill [later Mary Soames]; official recognition of the French authorities in North Africa; difficulties with a possible visit to Roosevelt [President of the United States] by de Gaulle [President of the Provisional Government...