Description
Object description
20 ms letters in French and English sent to his father ca 1938 - 1945, with references to a (?pre Second World War) mobilisation of French forces, his own service in the French Army (prior to June 1940) and in the British forces with the Royal Artillery, 19th Field Regiment RA (51st (Highland) Division) in England and the Middle East, 1941 - 1942, and with the Intelligence Corps in France and North West Europe, 1944 - 1945, together with his identity papers (including a French passport issued to him in 1940), photographs of the British and French units with which he served and a letter dated 18 November 1942 from his wife, Rosalind, a secretary at the London HQ of Special Operations Executive, to Colonel M Buckmaster, head of F Section SOE, expressing doubts about her husband's recruitment into SOE, with annotated responses by Buckmaster, correspondence (1927 - 1955) from Arlette Alexander and correspondence and other papers (1896 - 1948) relating to Henry Alexander covering his business interests in South America and the West Indies in the 1890s and work as editor of two French publications and the London based 'Public Ledger' (circa 1917 - 1939) as well as intriguing references to his apparent work for the British Secret Service in France (1899 - 1906), a meeting with Winston Churchill in New York (ca 1900 - 1901) and involvement in a 1939 libel case concerning Princess Hohenlohe, also letters to and from Lord Cecil Manners, Lord Denbigh and Sir Robert Vansittart and many British MPs often comprising a forthright exchange of views on the national and international situation in the 1930s, together with a few papers relating to John Cathcart Wason MP, a letter from Alfred Dreyfus to General Petain dated March 1916 and an account of convict life in Florida by Isaac Schwartz.
Content description
20 ms letters in French and English sent to his father ca 1938 - 1945, with references to a (?pre Second World War) mobilisation of French forces, his own service in the French Army (prior to June 1940) and in the British forces with the Royal Artillery, 19th Field Regiment RA (51st (Highland) Division) in England and the Middle East, 1941 - 1942, and with the Intelligence Corps in France and North West Europe, 1944 - 1945, together with his identity papers (including a French passport issued to him in 1940), photographs of the British and French units with which he served and a letter dated 18 November 1942 from his wife, Rosalind, a secretary at the London HQ of Special Operations Executive, to Colonel M Buckmaster, head of F Section SOE, expressing doubts about her husband's recruitment into SOE, with annotated responses by Buckmaster, correspondence (1927 - 1955) from Arlette Alexander and correspondence and other papers (1896 - 1948) relating to Henry Alexander covering his business interests in South America and the West Indies in the 1890s and work as editor of two French publications and the London based 'Public Ledger' (circa 1917 - 1939) as well as intriguing references to his apparent work for the British Secret Service in France (1899 - 1906), a meeting with Winston Churchill in New York (ca 1900 - 1901) and involvement in a 1939 libel case concerning Princess Hohenlohe, also letters to and from Lord Cecil Manners, Lord Denbigh and Sir Robert Vansittart and many British MPs often comprising a forthright exchange of views on the national and international situation in the 1930s, together with a few papers relating to John Cathcart Wason MP, a letter from Alfred Dreyfus to General Petain dated March 1916 and an account of convict life in Florida by Isaac Schwartz.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 2005-07