Includes letters from schoolmasters; journalists; military colleagues; novelists and other literary figures; compilers of anthologies mostly concerning the sea and travel; biographers of several of RHI's acquaintances; yachtsmen and crew members of Mary Deare; and personal friends in Britain and abroad; as well as copies of letters from RHI. Correspondents include ALLEN, PETER (Add.9533/2/1/680, 682), ARGENT, (BERNARD) GODFREY (Add.9533/2/1/347), BAKER, DENYS VAL (Add.9533/2/1/410-411, 506-507, 521, 523), BALLANTRAE, BARON (BERNARD EDWARD FERGUSSON) (Add.9533/2/1/358, 380, 424, 450, 477, 490), BARBER, NOEL JOHN LYSBERG (Add.9533/2/1/215, 275), BARDWELL, JAMES E. (Add.9533/2/1/298), BARTY-KING, HUGH DAVID (Add.9533/2/1/570, 573-576, 581), BASSETT, F. WILLIAM N. (Add.9533/2/1/319), BATEMAN, DAVID LAURANCE (Add.9533/2/1/399-400, 463, 465, 474, 675, 700, 702, 767-769, 788-789), BATSON, W. 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(Add.9533/2/1/387, 395, 397, 637, 639), INNES (née LANG), DOROTHY MARY Miscellaneous letters received (jointly with Hammond Innes) (1951-87) (Add.9533/2/1/113-649 passim), INNES, NEIL MCLEOD (Add.9533/2/1/217, 538-539, 541-545, 555, 603, 605, 670-671, 689), JACKMAN, STUART BROOKE (Add.9533/2/1/484, 486), JAMES OF HOLLAND PARK, BARONESS (PHYLLIS DOROTHY JAMES) (Add.9533/2/1/731), JENKINS, PATRICK (Add.9533/2/1/588a), JONES, CHARLES H.S. (Add.9533/2/1/83, 88, 125, 175), JOY, THOMAS ALFRED (Add.9533/2/1/418, 563-567, 582, 604, 609), KELLOCK, JAMES G. (Add.9533/2/1/46, 52, 54), KEMP, PETER KEMP (Add.9533/2/1/421-422), KING, WILLIAM (Add.9533/2/1/44, 48, 51), KNIGHT, IAN J. (Add.9533/2/1/524, 526), KNOX, ALEXANDER (Add.9533/2/1/361), KNUDSEN, O.F. (Add.9533/2/1/105), KOBER, CHARLES (Add.9533/2/1/36), KRUSEMAN, D. 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