Private Papers of A G Clifford

An important collection of personal papers comprising 7 archival boxes of diaries, correspondence, press cuttings, photographs and ephemera. This includes interesting material in relation to Clifford's career as a journalist with Reuters (1931-1940) and the Daily Mail (1940-1952) and, in particular, his posting as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War in 1938. Includes: a short but interesting diary from 1939 when Clifford was head of the Reuters news bureau in Berlin and documenting the build-up to the outbreak of the Second World War; a detailed diary from 1941-1942 describing his experiences as a war correspondent during the Western Desert Campaign and the Middle East Campaign and his daily life living and working with Alan Moorhead of the Daily Express; personal correspondence with his family describing his experiences during the Spanish Civil War (covering actions at Teruel and Ebro in 1938) and the Western Desert Campaign (covering actions at Benghazi, Tobruk, El Alamein, Tripoli and Tunis, 1940-1943), visits to Iraq, Persia, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine during the Middle East Campaign in 1941, the evacuation of Greece in 1941, air-raids on Malta in 1941, the Allied advance on Pantelleria, Sicily and Italy in 1943 and France and Germany in 1944) which includes a good series of around 200 letters to his mother and correspondence from after the Second World War when Clifford worked as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail (1945-1952) together with letters covering significant episodes in his life such as his 1945 marriage to Jennie Nicholson (daughter of Robert Graves) and his battle with Hodgkin's disease; press cuttings of articles by Clifford which include a series of 19 scrapbooks compiled chronologically (1940-1951) as well as loose cuttings (1938 and 1950-1951); over 200 photographs (mostly undated and unatributed) but which include scenes of war and liberation taken whilst Clifford was in Spain (1938), Greece (1941), North Africa and the Middle East (1940-1943), Italy (1943) and also of his family; and personal ephemera relating to Clifford, both loose and fixed into scrapbooks (includes identify cards, press accreditation cards, photographs, correspondence, press cuttings and other ephemera). Contains many interesting insights into the life of a war correspondent including the difficulty of obtaining and transmitting despatches, censorship and the personal dangers and discomforts suffered.

An important collection of personal papers comprising 7 archival boxes of diaries, correspondence, press cuttings, photographs and ephemera. This includes interesting material in relation to Clifford's career as a journalist with Reuters (1931-1940) and the Daily Mail (1940-1952) and, in particular, his posting as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War in 1938. Includes: a short but interesting diary from 1939 when Clifford was head of the Reuters news bureau in Berlin and documenting the build-up to the outbreak of the Second World War; a detailed diary from 1941-1942 describing his experiences as a war correspondent during the Western Desert Campaign and the Middle East Campaign and his daily life living and working with Alan Moorhead of the Daily Express; personal correspondence with his family describing his experiences during the Spanish Civil War (covering actions at Teruel and Ebro in 1938) and the Western Desert Campaign (covering actions at Benghazi, Tobruk, El Alamein, Tripoli and Tunis, 1940-1943), visits to Iraq, Persia, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine during the Middle East Campaign in 1941, the evacuation of Greece in 1941, air-raids on Malta in 1941, the Allied advance on Pantelleria, Sicily and Italy in 1943 and France and Germany in 1944) which includes a good series of around 200 letters to his mother and correspondence from after the Second World War when Clifford worked as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail (1945-1952) together with letters covering significant episodes in his life such as his 1945 marriage to Jennie Nicholson (daughter of Robert Graves) and his battle with Hodgkin's disease; press cuttings of articles by Clifford which include a series of 19 scrapbooks compiled chronologically (1940-1951) as well as loose cuttings (1938 and 1950-1951); over 200 photographs (mostly undated and unatributed) but which include scenes of war and liberation taken whilst Clifford was in Spain (1938), Greece (1941), North Africa and the Middle East (1940-1943), Italy (1943) and also of his family; and personal ephemera relating to Clifford, both loose and fixed into scrapbooks (includes identify cards, press accreditation cards, photographs, correspondence, press cuttings and other ephemera). Contains many interesting insights into the life of a war correspondent including the difficulty of obtaining and transmitting despatches, censorship and the personal dangers and discomforts suffered.

Cataloguer: EP