Letter on occultations of stars and a solar eclipse. There are notes on Stephen Groombridge's circle on the reverse.

Subjects include: CS's visit to the Soviet Union, May 1964, as Minister of Agriculture; negotiations with Charles de Gaulle and Georges Pompidou, Presidents of France, over Britain's entry into Europe, 1969-71; the Soames Affair, 1969; the decline and fall of de Gaulle and the 1969 referendum.

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Extracts taken mainly from a Columbia Masterworks recording KOL 7000 "I Can Hear it Now: Winston Churchill". Includes transcripts of the extracts, and also transcripts of Churchill's broadcasts which were given in French, and extracts from his speeches relating to France.

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.

Note; by Charles Robert Darwin lacks beginning

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The papers cover every aspect of Lord Noel-Baker's very full and varied career and include constituency papers, Labour Party material, extensive sections on domestic and international affairs, peace and disarmament, sport, books and articles, speeches and correspondence.

The papers cover every aspect of Lord Noel-Baker's very full and varied career and include constituency papers, Labour Party material, extensive sections on domestic and international affairs, peace and disarmament, sport, books and articles, speeches and correspondence.

Includes files on America, Germany, India, and on various subjects including inflation and the Bank of England.

Overseas tours by JEP.

Annotated reports by LSA and others on operations including: the defence of and withdrawal from Antwerp [Belgium], with a report by Major-General Julian Byng, Commanding 3rd Cavalry Division on an action fought by his troops, and figures of German strengths and positions; operations of the 4th Army Corps (November-January).

The papers consist of copies of personal papers from various stages in Lascelles's career, and other material relating to Lascelles, including: letters and diary from his posting to Paris [France] during the Franco-Prussian War and at the beginning and end of his position as Ambassador to Germany; the diary of his family's visit to Iran in 1892; press cuttings of obituaries for Lascelles.

Notes on the distribution of the navy, 1939 and the armistice terms regarding 1940.

Includes: souvenir of the first voyage to France by a British parliamentary delegation during the war, October 1939; menu of a dinner with General Maurice Gamelin, French Commander-in-Chief, February 1940, signed by those present; souvenir programme from a Free French training camp, Christmas 1940.

Requesting Clive [?Carey]'s address in Calais 'as we go there for a rest in a few days time'

Has been given command of a company; hears [Sir Hubert] Parry has written 'some more part songs' [probably Songs of Farewell]; asks after V[aughan] W[illiams]; his head is full of music; Eddie Marsh is 'in despair, for his saccharine memoir of Rupert has been nipped in the bud'

Again missed Dent when on leave, but met Manny [Forbes], [Cyril] Rootham, Alan Gray and others, the latter in despair at the state of Cambridge; Beecham has heard of Vaughan Williams's new opera [Hugh the Drover] and shows interest, 'I suppose it would be too hideous a fate for it?'; saw a performance of Boris Godunov

Has been on leave in Paris, where he met Alphonse ?Kans and saw the latter's art collection; has so far failed to secure a staff job

German efficiency; uncomplimentary remarks about [Sir Thomas] Beecham; the fortunes of English chamber music; mud

Has been on leave again; his current reading; Hugh Walpole's 'Red Cross book'; has subscribed reluctantly to 'R B's grand plaquet fund'; I see [A.W.] Tisdall [of Trinity] has been given the VC; they are always given to corpses nowadays.'

The Kneller Hall post; Adrian Boult; his wind septet has been performed privately; progress of the war

Working for the claims commission as a rent officer; hopes to meet some old friends; the French peasantry; death of 'CB'