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Pamphlets mainly relating to Germany, including pamphlet no. 30 by MAR, "Hitler's Thirteen Points, a Criticism". Also includes prints of treaties on wartime conventions, 1907-10.

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Collection includes a copy of Robertson's autobiography, ca. 1945; correspondence with his mother and wife, 1900-1946; papers relating to Robertson's Foreign Office career; speeches and articles; and papers relating to later aspects of Robertson's career.

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75 x 100 mm. Two women at the Avenue of the Emperor.

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106 x 82 mm. A view of the Orangerie.

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Drafts, proofs and issues of the Westminster Gazette with articles by JWHM on subjects including: the trial of Vladimir Sukhomlinov [former Russian Minister of War] and the charge that General Nikolai Yanushkevich [Russian Chief of Staff] had lied about Russia mobilising against Germany in 1914; the revolution in Germany, Nov 1918; the German elections, 1920.

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Cuttings on subjects including: the Four-Power Conference in Berlin [Germany], January 1954; FR's appointment as the next Ambassador to Yugoslavia; a dinner at Chartwell [Kent] to discuss the European Defence Community, August 1954; West Germany's response to the London Conference, October 1954.

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Interview from 19 November 1936 with covering letter to Hore-Belisha from 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Harold Harmsworth] and Hore-Belisha's reply, 26 and 28 November.

Scope and Contents Correspondence and papers including: material from JWHM's work for the War Propaganda Bureau (Wellington House), 1914–17, and subsequently the Political Intelligence Bureau, 1917-18 and Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office, 1918–20; correspondence and papers on JWHM's role as Historical Adviser to the Foreign Office, particularly on the history of the war and of the Peace Conference; correspondence on the founding of the British Institute of International Affairs (later...

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100 x 80 mm.

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56 x 88. Photograph of a German sailor.

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Drafts of the reply by the Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain] to Adolf Hitler's letters of 23 and 25 August with comments by Hore-Belisha and other Ministers and draft letters about this reply. Also includes a Command Paper publishing the correspondence of August 1939 between the German and United Kingdom Governments.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints, lantern slides and glass negatives. The prints mostly relate to Westgate’s earlier work, but there are a few from the 1930s, including nos. 426-454 of visits to South Africa and African islands, all processed in February 1936. The captions have been used as titles and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. Many of the lantern slides and glass negatives are uncaptioned and...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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The album cover continues: 'Home leave 1954' and illustrates over 2800 miles by road through Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and France.

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Frome's original sketches of Kingston, Ontario, Canada, numbers 187, 189-91 and 196 were sold to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, in 1975. Photographs of these sketches are stored at RCMS 40/3/15-19. Glass plates which had been made from several of Frome’s drawings of the Rideau Canal (missing when the collection arrived in Cambridge) have been reproduced on Cambridge Digital Library as Y3062T.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: This is a collection of art work created by the Royal Engineer Edward Charles Frome (1802-1890). In 1929 Frome’s surviving daughter, Mrs Frank Wynne, presented some of the South Australian drawings to the Royal Empire Society through the good offices of Sir Harry Wilson, to whom she bequeathed the rest of the collection. He presented it to the society in 1931. The majority of Frome’s individual watercolours and drawings, varying in size from 250 to 450 mm, were then housed in eight...

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100 x 75 mm.

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107 x 82 mm.

Scope and Contents Subjects include: work on their new house [33 Eccleston Square, London]; the progress of Churchill's Trade Boards Bill; his Unemployment Insurance plan; Clementine's pregnancy [with Diana Churchill, later Diana Bailey and Diana Sandys]; the financial affairs of Churchill's cousin Ivor Guest [later 1st Lord Wimborne]; a field day with the Oxfordshire Yeomanry and Churchill's wish to try handling large forces; the birth of Jack [John S] Churchill's and 'Goonie' [Lady Gwendeline Churchill]'s...

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Churchill's stay with Randolph Churchill at Maxine Elliott's villa, Chateau de l'Horizon, near Cannes [France], August 1934; Maxine's financial losses in the American slump; painting at Antibes and the Notre Dame de Vie chapel [at Mougins]; work on the proofs of Volume II [of the biography of 1st Duke of Marlborough] and starting on Volume III; plans for a cruise [in the Eastern Mediterranean, aboard the yacht Rosaura with 1st Lord Moyne, earlier Walter Guinness];...

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Frome created a series of sketchbooks of various formats during his travels. Numbers 1 (Canada) and 4-5 (Mauritius) were missing when the collection came to Cambridge. The RCS sold numbers 2-3 (Australia) to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1970. Numbers 6-7 and 11 had never been presented to the society. The great majority of the contents of the seven sketchbooks listed below had been removed in London, leaving only a few rough pieces.

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Notes, newspaper cuttings and illustrations on the history of spectacles. Bell collected spectacles, including Joseph Chamberlain’s eyeglass, which was presented to him by Chamberlain’s widow after his death.