Second World War (1939-1945)
Found in 2728 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Searle to an Unknown Recipient, 1941-04-03
1 pencil manuscript letter signed from Searle to 'Sir' [likely a member of Pembroke College] detailing Searle's new posting as Regimental Medical Officer. He notes his pleasure at receiving the Pembroke College Magazine.
Letters from Adeline to Maurice and Henry Hankey and Ursula Benn, 1939-01-12 - 1939-10-26
Subjects covered include: arrival at the British Embassy in Cairo, Egypt, travels to the pyramids and staying with the British Ambassador, Sir Miles Lampson; Adeline being nominated to launch HMS Nigeria; the difficulties of driving during the blackout; and Adeline's work in the communal kitchen.
Letters from constituents against outbreak of war, 1939-10
Letters from Duff Cooper to his son John Julius Cooper [later 2nd Lord Norwich], 1940-02 - 1941-11
Letters from ELS to Nancy Maurice (later Nancy, Lady Spears), 1930-08 - 1941-11
Letters from JA to Leo Amery, 1941-05 - 1941-12
Subjects include: the military and political situation in the Middle East, particularly Syria; contacts with Yugoslav Government refugees; the need for improved command structure in Cairo [Egypt] to oversee the different services; future tensions between the Arabs and Jews; escorting a party of Yugoslavs back to Montenegro; the need to provide more support for the Yugoslavs [Yugoslavia, later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia].
Letters from JA to Leo Amery, 1942-01 - 1948-12
Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell, 1939-12 - 1941-03
Mainly on Cooper’s lecture tour of the United States, with other subjects including the outbreak of war, bombing raids, rationing, the illness of 11th Lord Lothian [earlier Philip Kerr] and who would succeed him as British Ambassador to the United States.
Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell, 1944-01 - 1944-12
Letters from Algiers and Paris [France] on subjects including: life in Algeria; Winston Churchill’s visit to Marrakesh [Morocco], Jan 1944 and Clementine Churchill’s view that he would die after the war; a visit by Mary, Lady Spears [earlier Mary Borden], Feb 1944; a visit from Martha Hemingway [Martha Gellhorn], Mar 1944; Charles de Gaulle ("Charlie Wormwood"); Randolph Churchill’s plane crashing, July 1944 and stay, Aug 1944; going to Italy, Aug 1944; life in Paris.
Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell: transcripts, 1941-08 - 1941-10
Letters on subjects including: the journey to Singapore; settling in; visiting Java (Dutch East Indies [later Indonesia]), Malaya [later Malaysia], Rangoon and Mandalay [Burma, later Myanmar].
Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell: transcripts, 1941-10 - 1941-12
Letters on subjects including: visiting India, Australia and New Zealand; the Japanese advance; the sinking of HMSS Prince of Wales and Repulse.
Letters from Lady Diana Cooper to Conrad Russell: transcripts, 1941-12 - 1942-02
Letters on subjects including: the Japanese advance; the end of Cooper’s mission to Singapore and the journey home via Egypt.
Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1940-07-05 - 1941-07-18
Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1941-08-23 - 1942-12
Letters sent mainly from Singapore while Duff Cooper had responsibility for Far Eastern affairs. Subjects include: the journey from the United States to Singapore via Hawaii; visiting Batavia [later Jakarta, Indonesia], India, Bali, Australia and New Zealand; the state of Singapore; the journey home.
Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius, 1944-01-04 - 1945-06-25
Letters from Lady Diana to John Julius: transcripts, 1940-07-05 - 1941-07-18
Letters from Lady Diana to her son during and before the war, from France while Duff Cooper was British Ambassador to Paris, and from Chantilly after his retirement and subsequent death.
Letters from Leo Amery to JA, 1939-07 - 1944-11
Letters of [Clarence] Terry Dawson relating to his time as an RAF Cadet at Downing College, 1941-09 - 1943-05
Letters to ELS, 1940-05 - 1941-03
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.
Letters to his father, 1939 - 1942
Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91
Letters to his wife, 1940-05 - 1940-06
Written from Dover.
With an account of the Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo).
Letters to his wife, 1940-07 - 1941-01
Written from Force H.
Letters to his wife, 1941-01 - 1941-03
Written from Force H.
Letters to his wife, 1941-04 - 1941-05
Written from Force H.
Letters to his wife, 1941-05 - 1941-08
Written from Force H.