Includes typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 20 entitled "United States Destroyers and West Indian Bases", annotated with suggested amendments and corrections by various individuals including: WSC, William Deakin, Charles Wood, Denis Kelly, [?] 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann], George [Gordon] Allen, CSC and Jo Sturdee [later Lady Onslow] and Elizabeth Gilliatt, WSC's secretaries.

Includes typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 8 entitled "The Battle of the Atlantic: American Intervention" (provisionally entitled "The Battle of the Atlantic 1941: The Ocean"), annotated with notes and comments by various individuals including: WSC, Denis Kelly, Charles Wood, Sir Edward Marsh, William Deakin and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall.Also includes: galley proofs of the contents table and title pages for Volume 3.

Includes typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 33 entitled "A Voyage amid World War" (provisionally entitled "Christmas at the White House" and "My voyage to Washington [United States]"). Annotated with notes and suggestions by various people including: WSC, Denis Kelly, William Deakin, Charles Wood, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall, 1st Lord Ismay, [George] Gordon Allen, Sir Edward Marsh and Randolph Churchill.

Includes typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 36 entitled "Anglo American Accords". Annotated with notes and suggestions by various people including: WSC, Denis Kelly, William Deakin, Charles Wood, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall, Sir Edward Marsh and 1st Lord Ismay.Also includes sections from a chapter entitled "Arcadia and Florida [United States]".

Typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 28 "The Climax: Roosevelt's Death" annotated with suggested amendments and corrections by various people including WSC, Denis Kelly, William Deakin and Charles Wood With copies of "The Times" 13 and 14 Apr 1945 on the death of Franklin Roosevelt, notes by Kelly, and copies of official telegrams on the death of Roosevelt.

First published in Collier's magazine, on the aftermath of World War II, the roles of France, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union with regard to Europe, the United Nations, the need for a Council of Europe, and the atomic bomb.

Also includes: notes and annotations by WSC's secretaries "N S" [Jo Sturdee, later Lady Onslow] and "L M M" [Lettice Marston, later Lettice Shillingford]; letter and notes from Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] on the article.Other subjects include: the publication of the article in the Daily Telegraph.

Proofs and offprints of articles including: "Thoughts on Prohibition" (including research notes by Shane Leslie); "Are we too clever?" on economic depression and overproduction; and "Defence in the Pacific" on the policy of the United States towards the Philippine Islands (including notes from Colin Coote and Shane Leslie).

Proofs and cuttings of articles by WSC: "America and unemployment" in which WSC defends the principle of unemployment insurance; "Land of corn" on WSC's opinion that food in the United States is inferior to British food, his objections to prohibition and his experiences of travel in the United States; an article on Anglo-American economic relations including notes on British economic policy by Aylmer Valance; and "The problem of liquor control" on prohibition.

'The Nation', 17 Feb. 1898.

Detailed diary written whilst Smedley visited parts of eastern Canada and Washington, DC, with Lord Home, Commonwealth Secretary, 1955-57 (circa 200 sheets).

Itineraries, dinner plans, tourist brochures, and prospectuses from the ‘British Newfoundland Corporation Limited, Montreal, May 1956’ and the ‘Quebec Labrador Iron Ore Company of Canada’ are also included.

48 x 69 mm.

125 x 80 mm. A view of a lake.