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Album of photographs of MS’s First World War hospital.

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Notes on CSC's younger sister Nellie Hozier, particularly on her marriage to Bertram Romilly in 1915 and her work with Angela Manners's nursing unit in Belgium in 1914. Includes a copy of Nellie Hozier's article for the English Review, 1915, on her adventures when the unit was taken prisoner during the retreat from Mons, Belgium, and copies of letters from a nurse with the unit.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Frances, Lady Hadfield (5); Jacob Epstein on including MS’s comments on his work in his autobiography; Hamish Hamilton. Other subjects include: the recruitment and training of women drivers for the Mechanised Transport Corps; plans for filming "Passport for a Girl"; the formation of the Hadfield-Spears field ambulance unit and supplies needed by the unit; MS’s decoration of the Legion d’Honneur; letters of sympathy to ELS on MS being reported...

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Correspondence and papers on MS's First World War hospital work in France, and on the formation, administration and closure of the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit, of which she was Directrice, in France and the Levant during the Second World War.

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Subjects include: training near Boulogne [France]; visiting the Duchess of Sutherland’s hospital [Longueness] and the Duchess of Westminster’s hospital [Le Touquet].

Scope and Contents Love letters from MS to ELS, with other subjects including the work of her field hospital, being awarded a palm to her Croix de Guerre by Marshal Philippe Petain, having an operation, the production of her play "The Falconbridge Scandal" in London and arranging a divorce from her husband, [George] Douglas Turner. Also includes poems, letters of congratulation to ELS on becoming Brigadier-General from individuals including [?] General Sir Ian Hamilton, and a letter to...

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Letters from MS to ELS on subjects including: the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit; ELS finding the right war work; the departure of General Requin; her concern that their son "Peti" [Michael Spears] should not be left alone; her admiration for ELS’s work.

Includes a photograph of MS in her nursing uniform.

Scope and Contents Diary kept during ELS's time as Head of the Spears Mission to Syria and the Lebanon and First Minister to the republics of Syria and the Lebanon. Subjects include: the journey of the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit to the Levant via South Africa and Egypt; difficulties in dealing with the Free French; her happiness at being with ELS; moving up to the front line in Syria; her poor view of General Sir Archibald Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East]; life keeping house for ELS in...

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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Includes a few photographs of MS.

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Script of the BBC documentary on the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit, 1940-45.

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Photographs used for the BBC documentary on the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit (including photographs of the unit in the Western Desert, 1942)..

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Photographs used for the BBC documentary on the Hadfield-Spears Mobile Hospital Unit.

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Letters from Nellie Hozier [later Nellie Romilly] to her mother Lady Blanche Hozier and to Clementine while on active service, nursing in the hospital in Mons [Belgium] as a prisoner-of-war. Also includes a letter from Lady Blanche to Mrs Cazelet begging for funds for the hospital.