Scope and Contents This collection comprises photographs, reports, lectures and instructional booklets on camouflage together with some papers relating to Major Seago's military career and also interesting correspondence between Major Seago and Field-Marshal Sir H.R. Alexander (1941-59) and Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (1947-57) mainly on the subject of painting. This collection comprises photographs, reports, lectures and instructional booklets on camouflage together with some papers relating to Major...

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Comprising diaries and scrapbooks; books, articles and lectures; correspondence files; memorabilia; and audio-visual material.

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Includes MT's handwritten annotations
Also includes themes paper by Angus Maude and his group, February 1978; and copy of Leader's Steering Committee paper by Mr [Norman] St. John-Stevas MP, "Conservative policy on education and the arts", 22 March 1978

Scope and Contents Letter from Clare Sheridan to WSC, expressing delight that he was to have his portrait painted by Oswald Birley, describing Birley as "one of our great contemporary portrait painters...a lovely person and a gallant man", who had carried on painting in spite of losing an eye while serving with the Home Guard, noting that he had done the best portrait of King George VI, but that he did not exhibit at the Royal Academy "they having treated him as they treat me" original ms, with typescript...

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Letter from WSC to Lucien Pissarro thanking him for the gift of his father's picture "Anse des Pilotes, Le Havre", which will be donated to the National Gallery [London].

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Letter from WSC to James de Rothschild offering him a position on the Board of Trustees of the Wallace Collection.

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Letter from Press and Magazine Artists of Great Britain to WSC thanks for agreeing to act as Patron of Exhibition to be held June 1904.

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Letter from WSC to Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] proposing to renew his Trusteeship of the National Gallery.

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Letter from WSC to Christopher Nevinson thanking him for his letter and on his status as a part of England.

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Letter from WSC to 2nd Lord Melchett [earlier Sir Henry Mond] thanking him for his generosity over the painting of the Battle of Blenheim by Jan van Huchtenburgh.

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Letter from WSC to Norman Holden on commissioning an artist, possibly Nicholson [? Ben Nicholson], to reproduce Field Marshal Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] addressing Parliament.

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Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Lee of Fareham asking him to join the new Royal Fine Art Commission with 28th Lord Crawford [and 11th Lord Balcarres] as Chairman, and William Holford, Hubert Worthington and John Maynard Keynes.

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Letter from WSC to William Curtis Green accepting his resignation from the Royal Fine Art Commission.

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Letters from WSC to Sir [William] Reid Dick and Gerald Kelly accepting their resignation from the Royal Fine Art Commission.

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Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Lee of Fareham [Deputy Chairman, Royal Fine Art Commission] thanking him for his help with the Commission, where 28th Lord Crawford [and 11th Lord Balcarres] will take over as Chairman.

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Letter from WSC to 28th Lord Crawford and 11th Lord Balcarres inviting him to be Chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission.

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Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Lee of Fareham [Deputy Chairman, Royal Fine Arts Commission] accepting the resignation of the Commission members.

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Letter from WSC to 28th Lord Crawford and 11th Lord Balcarres on his appointment as Chairman of the Royal Fine Arts Commission.

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Letter from WSC to Christopher Nevinson thanking him for the gift of his painting "Battlefields of Britain" which will hang in the Air Ministry.

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Letter from WSC to Sir Edwin Lutyens [President of the Royal Academy] thanking him for the bust of WSC by Sir William Reid Dick presented in the name of the Royal Academy.

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Letter from Sir Kenneth Clark [Director of the National Gallery] to Anthony Lousada [Ministry of Economic Warfare] explaining that the paintings being exported from Germany to the United States are worth 2.5 million pounds and the only way of frustrating the deal is to ask the dealers, Knoedlers to drop the sale. [Copy] [See also CHAR 20/26/83 ].

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Telegram from Benjamin Guinness to Francis Howard suggesting that pictures [sold by Germany] should be pronounced contraband to discourage buyers and possibly attainted after the sale.

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Letter from Francis Howard to WSC complaining that the lay-dominated Board of the Tate Gallery is losing pictures to overseas competitors through delaying too long.

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Letter from Kenneth Clark [Director of the National Gallery] to Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC] about control of contraband pictures; refers him to a letter from Clarke to the Ministry of Economic Warfare [see CHAR 20/26/77 - 78 ] and advises that he does not take Benjamin Guinness's letter too seriously.

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Letter from Hugh Gaitskell [Principal Private Secretary to the Minister of Economic Warfare] to Anthony Bevir [Private Secretary to WSC] thanking him for his letter but disparaging Francis Howard's suggestion that they use German marks to buy the pictures, as the Germans are selling works of art purely to get foreign currency.