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Copy of an unpublished memoir, 1865-1926, 1926 - 1946
Comprising: Home, Clevedon, Eton; Sandhurst and Examinations; The Grenadier Guards; Racing: a Story of the Inevitable; Ireland; Canada; South African War 1900-1902; Tennis, Hunting, Stalking, Golf, Fishing and Shooting; The First German War: France and Belgium; Italy; Some Notes on the Battle of Vittorio Veneto and After; From Aldershot to Washington; and War Office 1922-26.
With correspondence with Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, 1925 (2).
[Corpses in a field with an artillery barrage in the distance], 1915
190 x 145 mm.
Correspondence and memoranda, 1940-05 - 1955-02
Correspondence and source material for book on the origins of the Free French, 1941 - 1955
Correspondence on France: Charles de Gaulle, 1940-06 - 1941-08
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.
Correspondence on France: the French infantry and navy, 1939 - 1940-09
Includes a memorandum on the infantry and papers and correspondence on the navy.
Correspondence on French observatories, 1955 - 1962
Correspondence regarding French observatories, including the Paris Observatory and Meudon Observatory. There is also a paper by A. Danjon, in French, on 'The Analysis of Inequalities in the Rotation of the Earth'.
Correspondence on geodesy, 1862 - 1868
Correspondence, telegrams and papers on France, 1940-07 - 1941-02
Subjects include: Dakar [Senegal]; the Vansittart Committee; French armament; BBC broadcasts by the French; Operation Menace [Anglo-Free French mission to Dakar]; Gold; the military mission to Duala [Cameroon]; policy towards the Vichy administration; Operation Marie.
Correspondence, telegrams and papers on France, 1940 - 1945
Personal correspondence and general files.
Correspondence with Charles de Gaulle, 1956-01 - 1962-08
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.
Creselly [i.e. Cressely], School House, 1908
Postcard, written by Fred to Miss Milly Grittle. Cressely is also written as 'Cresselly' on the face of the photograph.
[Damage in Saint Pierre], 1902-05
80 x 55 mm. Piles of debris with a group of men standing on the left.
Dame Edith Lyttelton née Balfour: writings, 1884 - 1943
Political and personal correspondence and other papers.
CHAN 1, contains mainly papers of Hon Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of material of Oliver Lyttelton
CHAN II, consist mainly of papers of Oliver Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of papers of Alfred and Edith Lyttelton
David's farewell party. Folies Bergeres, 1950
161 x 111 mm. Six people, including Frederick and Lady Tymms and Johnny Verhagen, seated at a table at the Folies Bergères, a Parisian music hall.
[Dead team of Canadian transport mules and cart], 1915 - 1918
190 x 145 mm. A line of pack mules passes behind.
[Demolished trenches], 1915 - 1918
190 x 145 mm.
[Destroyed shelter], 1915 - 1918
190 x 145 mm.
Diary, 1940
Diary, 1944
Diary, 1926-01-01 - 1926-12-31
This diary records Bell's social life, interests, personal affairs and travels. It describes the latter part of his extensive tour of the Far East during 1925-26 in greater detail than RCMS 36/2/4 (509 pages).
Diary, 1927-01-01 - 1927-12-31
This diary records Bell’s life in retirement, much of it spent in Cannes, where he purchased land for the construction of a villa. It describes his social life, interests, personal affairs and travels. Subjects of particular interest include his reception of the GCMG from George V, the composition of ‘Foreign Colonial Administration in the Far East’ and letters to the press upon subjects such as the control of cinema in the colonies (circa 200 sheets).
Diary, 1928-01-01 - 1928-12-31
Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests and personal affairs; the purchase of a plot of land at Cannes and the construction of a villa; the completion of his book ‘Foreign Colonial Administration in the Far East’; the writing of his memoirs; attendance at the Union Coloniale Française on behalf of the government; the publication of letters in the press concerning the treatment of captive orang-utans and the education of Africans; and European travels (circa 80 sheets).
Diary, 1929-01-01 - 1929-12-31
Diary, 1930-01-01 - 1930-12-25
Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests, personal affairs and extensive travel within Europe; the final reports of the Colonial Films Committee and the Colonial Appointments Committee; the Caribs of Dominica; letters to the press on cinema in the colonies, film censorship and other themes; Mauritian finance; and spiritualism (circa 100 sheets).