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John Connell fonds. First and second accruals (combined)

Series 1
Published Manuscripts and Typescripts. --1930-1965. -- 1.48 m of textual records. -- Title based on content of series.

BOX 1
F.1 "Lyndesay". Ms.
F.2 "Who Goes Sailing?". Ms.
F.3 "David Go Back". Ms.

BOX 2
F.1-3 "The House by Herod's Gate". Ms.
F.4-8 "Winston Churchill". Ms. draft; page proofs; first edition; correspondence.
F.9 "Churchill the Biographer". Ts.
F.10 The Book Window. Autumn-Winter, 1955. 4 pp. article by Connell: "Sir Winston Churchill, Author and Book-lover".
F.11 "The World of Newspapers". Fourteen articles.
F.12-14 "Welensky's 4,000 Days". Ts. drafts; photographs.

BOX 3
F.1-5 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Volume I. Ms. and ts. drafts.

BOX 4
F.1-3 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Volume I. Books I & II. Marked "Publisher's copy". Ts. drafts.
F.4 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Volume I. Book I. Chap.1-3. Marked "Author's copy". Ts. rev.

BOX 5
F.1-3 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Volume I. Book I & II. Chap.4-14. Marked "Author's copy". Ts. rev.
F.4-5 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Volume I. Book I & II. Chap.1-14. Marked "Publisher's copy". Ts. rev.

BOX 6
F.1-4"Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Volume I. Book I & II. Chap.1-14. Publisher's editing version. Ts. rev.

BOX 7
F.1-3 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Volume I. Book I & II. Chap.1-14. Further revised version. Ts. rev.
F.4-6 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Volume I. Book I & II. Chap.1-14. Further revised version. Ts. rev. Second copy.

BOX 8

F.1 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Volume I. Book I & II. Chap.1-14. Ts. rev.
F.2-4 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Volume I. Book I & II. Chap.1-14. Printer's copy.

BOX 9
F.1 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Research notes.
F.2 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Advance proof copy.
F.3 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Two further advance proof copies.
F.4 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Research material: notes; 70 letters.
F.5 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Research material: copies of documents; letters.

BOX 10
F.1 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Drafts; contracts.
F.2 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Research notes.
F.3 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Ts. copies of letters; clipping.
F.4 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Copies of Wavell's correspondence.
F.5-6 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Correspondence. 1958-1962.
F.7-8 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Research notes.
F.9 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Research notes; correspondence.
F.10 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Contracts; correspondence.
F.11 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Correspondence from guests invited to a private reception for the book.

BOX 11
F.1-5 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". General correspondence.
F.6 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Research notes.
F.7 "Wavell, Scholar and Soldier". Insurance on the Wavell papers.

BOX 12
F.1 "Contemporary History". Ts. 1957.
F.2 "The Living Language". Ts. 1958.
F.3 "Politics in Africa and the Middle East, 1963". Ms. 1963.
F.4 "The Effect of Imperial Commitments on British Foreign Policy". Ts. 1965.
F.5 "Rhodesia the Intractable". Ms. 1965.
F.6 "Wavell's Thirty Thousand: Victory in the Desert, 1940-41". [1965]. Ts. Written for History of the Second World War.
F.7 "Rudyard Kipling". Ts.
F.8 "Margaret Rhondda". (Written c.1963, published in The Cornhill, 1966). Ts.
F.9 "Britain's Fringe Beneficiaries". Review. Ms. 1965.
F.10 "Official History and the Unofficial Historian". Ms.
F.11 "Writing About Soldiers". Tss.
F.12 "The Three-Monkey Philosophy". Ms.
F.13 "Soldier On. Mr. Osborne Soldier On". Rejected article. Ms.
F.14 "The Hunter and the Hunted". Rejected article. Ms.
F.15 "Smythes of Smythescourt". Ts. - short story
F.16 "None So Blind". Ts. Play
F.17 Correspondence with editors, talk organisers and others.
F.18-22 "Weekly News Letter". 20 Mss. July-Sept. 1965; correspondence.

Series 2
Unpublished Manuscripts and Typescripts. -- 1942-1965. -- 52 cm of textual records. -- Title based on content of series.

F.23 "Three Houses". [a novel c.1942]. Ts.
F.24 "Fire and Fleet and Candlelight". [a novel c.1943]. Ms.

BOX 13
F.1 "Irregular Elements". [a play in one act, 1945]. Ts.
F.2 "Who's for Pity". [a story c.1946]. Ts.
F.3 "Time to Think". [c.1949]. Ts.
F.4 "Canada Notes". 1952. Ms. draft; notes.
F.5-7 "Retreat from Empire". [c.1952-1959]. Ms.

BOX 14
F.1"Retreat from Empire". [c.1951-1959]. Ms.
F.2-3"Retreat from Empire". [c.1951-1959]. Marked Master copy. Ts.

BOX 15
F.1 "Retreat from Empire". [c.1951-1959]. Marked Master copy. Ts.
F.2-4 "Retreat from Empire". [c.1951-1959]. Ts. and ms.

BOX 16
F.1 "Retreat from Empire". [c.1951-1959]. Folder of misc. papers: outline for broadcast talks; ms. and ts. draft outlines for the book; ms. lecture notes; correspondence.
F.2 "The Faithful Commons". [c.1958-1962]. Intro., and Chap. I-II only. Ts.; correspondence.
F.3 "Call Him Not Home; a recollection". Ms.
F.4 Two fragments of abandoned novels comprising: [untitled]; "Spring Tide". Mss.
F.5 "Mainly from Memory; brief excursions in biography". [c.1963]. Ts. and ms. drafts.
F.6 "Four Facets". Ts. and ms.
F.7 "People and Occasions". Folder of material for a projected collection of 64 occasional articles. Tss. and mss.
F.8 "The Making of a School". Ms.
F.9 A Folder containing misc. shorter writings (unpublished), some radio scripts, and press cuttings.

Series 3
Correspondence Relating to Special Subjects, General and Literary Correspondence. -- 1930-1965. -- 3.1 m of textual records. – Title based on content of series. -- Series contains specialized and background correspondence, interspersed with various letters, documents, clippings and mss. of Connell's work.

BOX 17
F.1-5 Dealing with: Kenya 1961; Africa Project 1963; Kenya - Compassionate & Security Cases; Africa; S.E.R. Wynne of "Voice and Vision". Tss. and mss.; approx. 225 letters.
F.6 H.H. The Aga Khan. Also contains misc. fragments and revisions.
F.7 Anglo-Israeli Association. Also contains: Israel: Western Defence Battalion (lecture); souvenir brochure containing Connell's article Great Britain and Israel.
F.8-11 "Auchinleck: a critical biography". Correspondents include Julian Amery, Field Marshall Viscount Alanbrooke, General Lord Ismay, Sir Richard McCreery, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru. Also contains letters of appreciation; "Chink's Researches on the August 1942 Dismissal".
F.12 Dorman-Smith. Correspondence and documents concerning an attempt at a vindication of Auchinleck's military reputation in 1960.
F.13 Gwynne-Vaughan (Dame Helen). Correspondence and ms. & ts. drafts of a proposed biography. 1958-1965.
F.14 Henley (W.E.). 1949. With approx. 90+ letters; notes; and ts. of radio talk, "Beginning a Biography".

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F.1 Henley (W.E.). 1949. Ts. and ms. notes with 100+ letters. Also contains galley proof of hitherto unpublished poems by Henley.
F.2 Henley (W.E.). 1949. Press cuttings and some correspondence.
F.3 Henley and Stevenson address, delivered at Edinburgh University, 23rd Feb. 1951. Ms. notes and some correspondence.
F.4 Lord Lloyd. Folder containing correspondence concerning a projected biography of George Ambrose Lloyd, first Baron Lloyd of Dolobran (1897-1941).
F.5 "The Field Marshalls' Controversy". 1958. In addition to correspondence there are: ms. & ts. notes and drafts; cuttings.
F.6 "Indian Political Service". Correspondence regarding a proposed book on the I.P.S. 31 letters. 1958-1965.
F.7 Alexander Memoirs. Correspondence relating to disputes over "The Memoirs of Field-Marshall Earl Alexander of Tunis (ed. John North). 1962-1963.
F.8-10 Lectures by Connell for contribution to R.U.S.I. Journal (Royal United Service Institution). Also contains: lecture entitled,"Southern Africa"; Sir Francis Tuker's ts. notes on the, "History of the 4th Indian Division" (1958); correspondence; cuttings; misc. material.
F.11 Correspondence on the defence of Singapore and Malaya as related in an ms. by Brigadier Ivan Simson. Also contains: "Thomas (Shenton)", [comments on the First Draft of the Official History of the War in Malaya] possibly for use by Connell's Volume II of the Wavell biography; Correspondence.
F.12 The Office: a study of British Foreign Policy and its Makers, 1919-1951. (1958). Ms. notes; ts. bibliography; correspondence; cuttings.
F.13 The Most Important Country: the true story of the Suez crisis. (1957). Correspondence related to this book. Also contains ms. of lecture given on the book.
F.14 Welensky's 4,000 Days. Ghosted by Connell. Correspondence with Sir Roy Welensky, and others, regarding the book. Also contains ms. draft of Connell's article, "Parade Out of Time", about the "final parade of the Rhodesia and Nyasaland Army, and its farewell salute to the Federal Prime Minister [Sir Roy]".
F.15 Brigadier Desmond Young's Manuscript. Correspondence between Desmond Young, "Jean" [Overton Fuller], and Connell, 1956-1958. Concerns Young and Fuller's narrative on the French and English espionage agents in France during the Second World War, entitled, "The Traitor and The Scapegoat", and Connell's assistance to this project.

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F.1-12 Aarons to Bax.

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F.1-14 Beatty to Brixton.

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F.1-20 Broad to Clowes.

BOX 22
F.1-13 Cochran to Cust.

BOX 23
F.1-12 Daily Express to Farningham House for Boys.

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F.1-17 Fawcett Society to Harz.

BOX 25
F.1-13 Hassall to International Summer University.

BOX 26
F.1-13 Iremonger to Lewis.

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F.1-11 Liberal International to Macpherson.

BOX 28
F.1-15 Maddison to National Book League.

BOX 29
F.1-13 National Book League to Peter Owen Ltd.

BOX 30
F.1-12 Oxford and Bermondsey Club to Putney.

BOX 31
F.1-11 Queen Mary College to Ryan.

BOX 32
F.1-16 Sadlier to Sykes.

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F.1-9 Tatler and Bystander to Voice and Vision.

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F.1-11 Wade to Zionist Society for International Affairs.

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F.1-23 Misc. correspondence: first name only; unidentified; initials only; not addressed to J.C.R.

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F.1 Three letters, 1930. Also contains extract of Edward C. Mack's, "Public Schools and British Opinion since 1860". (1941).
F.2 Two letters, 1932. Also contains: Petition of Appeal in the conviction of Augustine Joseph Hull; "Who Goes Sailing" (1932), dust-jacket, book notices, and ms. review; book notice for, "Red Rags: Essays of Hate from Oxford", edited by Richard Comyns Carr, in which appears Connell's, "Purveyors of Sex-Bunk".
F.3 Five letters, including a copy of letter criticizing a review by Connell, 1933-1935. Also contains, "Fortunate Simpleton", dust-jacket.
F.4 Seven letters, 1935-1938.
F.5 Nine letters, 1936-1937. Also contains: Notice to Jurors; cutting from the Air Review (Jan. 1937), of Connell's article, "I am Not Ashamed of the Empire"; samples of anti-Semitic fliers distributed by the Imperial Fascist League; misc. material.
F.6 Six letters, 1939. Also contains: agreement with Longmans Green & Co. for Connell's, "This Abiding Crisis"; copy of,"The Fleet Street Letter" (27 Jan. 1939); title page of Connell's, "The Story of An Old Meeting House"; Published version of Connell's address to the Lewes Rotary Club, 1933-1934, "The Wheel"; Longmans, Green & Co. order form for, "A Book of Devotional Readings from the Literature of Christendom", edited by Connell.
F.7 Nine letters, 1940-1946.
F.8 Two letters, 1946. Also contains editorial notes for, "The House By Herod's Gate".
F.9 Fifteen letters, 1949-1950.
F.10 Two letters, 1951.
F.11 Two letters, 1952.
F.12 Five letters, 1953. Also contains 1953 Coronation Ceremony Press Pass.
F.13 Six letters, 1954.
F.14 Five letters, 1955. Also contains poetry by Petus [?], ts., 20 pp.
F.15 Six letters, 1955.
F.16 Seven letters, 1955. Also contains: ts. carbon notes on the "Two Laws of Deuteronomy"; misc. organization's minutes.
F.17 Five letters, 1955. Also contains: anonymous ts. draft entitled, "Queen Elizabeth of Greece"; material related to the St. Andrew's Home and Club for orphans.
F.18 Letter, 1955. Also contains: invitations; transcript of telephone interview of Connell on an extract from, "At Home and Abroad", for the BBC Home Service (9 Dec. 1955); ts. extract of a Connell review of, "Special Operations".
F.19 Eleven letters, 1955-1956.

F.20 Eighteen letters, 1956.
F.21 Ten letters, 1956. Also contains: transcript of telephone discussion between F. Elwyn Jones, J.G. Foster, and John Connell for, "At Home and Abroad", for the BBC Home Service (15 June 1956); ts. transcript of radio show, "Books to Read", broadcast on General Overseas Service, 28 May 1956; extract of Connell's article, "The Logic of Despair", Time and Tide (26 May 1956); ts. carbon of, "The Living Page".
F.22 Twelve letters, 1956. Also contains: dust-jacket for Oliver Moxon's, "The Brigadier"; ts. carbon of memorandum, "The Operating Companies in Iran in 1956" (18 July 1956), initialled E.B.B.
F.23 Ten letters, 1956. Also contains: ts. of excerpts from the historic Lansing note, addressed by the Secretary of State of the United States to the Secretary of Foreign Relations of Mexico on June 29, 1916; ts. draft of review of, "The Shaping of the Modern World".
F.24 Four letters, 1957. Also contains a ts. draft of Connell's, "Humane Historian".
F.25 Contains misc. historical writings by others, and a ts. draft of [Connell's?], "The Silent War".
F.26 Eleven letters, 1957.
F.27 Seven letters, 1957-1958. Also contains: ts. draft of Connell's review of John Glubb's, "Failure of a Mission"; misc. material.
F.28 Seven letters, 1958. Also contains: ts. draft of Connell's, "Churchill: He takes his best"; Ts. draft of Connell's, "Great Britain and Israel", and a copy of the brochure in which it appeared, Anglo-Israel Association Souvenir Brochure, 1953.
F.29 Nineteen letters, 1958.
F.30 Eighteen letters, 1958. Also contains a ts. draft of Connell's comments re: Elizabeth Owen's, "Calling East Africa".
F.31 Fourteen letters, 1958-1959. Also contains: minutes for various committees for the Strowger House Orphanage [?]; confidential draft plan for British East and Central Africa, initialled D.S, 28 April 1959; misc. material.
F.32 Twenty-two letters, 1959. Also contains Connell's: "These Looks Speak Volumes: A Panorama of Publishers", Punch (Oct. 14, 1959); "Astonishingly, I Feel pity for Nehru today", Evening Standard (Sept. 2, 1959).
F.33 Twenty+ letters, 1959-1960.
F.34 Twenty+ letters, 1960. Also contains: ts. draft review of the 3rd Viscount Chilston's biography, "Aretas Akees-Douglas, first Viscount Chilston"; numerous carbon copies of letters written by others marked confidential; minutes of a Sub-Committee of the National Advisory Committee on Publicity and Speakers, 15th June 1960, of which Connell was a member; cuttings.
F.35 Twenty+ letters, 1960-1961. Also contains: ts. draft of Connell's article, "It's All A Bit Chancy"; War Crimes material; misc. material.
F.36 Ten+ letters, 1961. Also contains: ts. carbon of Connell letter of memorandum about Associated Newspapers Ltd.; cuttings of Connell's letters-to-the-editors; photograph.
F.37 Ten+ letters, 1961. Also contains: numerous ts. carbons of letters, some written by others; Ts. drafts of Connell's, "Pens (and Typewriters) Across the Seas", and, "Wilson's Last Fight"; War Crimes material.
F.38 Ten+ letters, 1961-1962. Also contains: numerous ts. carbons of letters, some written by others; Connell's, Murder My Business", Books of the Month (Dec. 1961); misc. material.
F.39 Ten+ letters, 1962. Also contains: numerous ts. carbons of letters, some written by others; misc. material.
F.40 Ten+ letters, 1962. Also contains Connell's reviews of: Jane Jacobs', "The Death and Life of Greta American Cities"; Terence Robertson's , "Dieppe"; Marshall of the Royal Air Force Lord Douglas of Kirtleside's, "The Years of Combat"; John Terraine's, "Douglas Haig: The Educated Soldier"; Dr. Sharf's, "The British Press and Jews Under Nazi Rule"; Ms. Hemingway's, "The Hemingways"; Sir Osbert Sitwell's, "Pound Wise". Misc. material.

F.41 Ten+ letters, 1962. Also contains Connell's reviews of: Louise Cann-Tanaka's, "The Agate Lamp"; "The Erosion of Freedom"; J.F. Lipscomb's, "Backbone Expendable". Three issues of Memo From Belgium Apr.-June 1962. Misc. material.
F.42 Ten+ letters, 1962. Also contains Connell's reviews of: "Mr. X, M.P.: The Diary of a Public Man"; Leslie Hale's, "None So Blind"; A novel (title unknown) by John Bratby. Misc. material.
F.43 Fifteen letters, 1962-1963.
F.44 Letters, 1948-1963; numerous drafts and press cuttings of Connell's articles and lectures; misc. material.
F.45 Letters by Connell and others, 1963-1964. Also contains ts. carbons of confidential reports [by an unknown author] on "Singapore and Malaysia" and "India", July 1963.
F.46 Twenty+ letters, 1964-1965. Also contains: ts. carbons of memorandum; some letters drafted by others; misc. material.
F.47 Twenty+ letters, 1965. Also contains Connell's reviews of: Captain Lockyer's MS; Dr. Poul Borchsenius's, "Behind the Wall" and "The Chains Are Broken"; Hans E. Tutsch's, "From Ankona to Marrakesh. Connell's articles: "Heisted"; "The Royal United Service Institution".
F.48 Twenty+ letters, 1934-1964. Also contains: Mr. Mazumdar's letter to Field Marshall Auchinleck, and his ts. draft essay, "Auchinleck of India in the Middle East (1941-1942), 1961.
F.49 Twenty+ letters, 1956-1960. Also contains: Connell's, "A Morning with Somerset Maugham", Smith's Trade News, Dec. 8, 1956; various memorial service programmes; misc. cuttings.
F.50 Twenty letters, 1930-1965.

Series 4
Radio, Television and Journalism. -- 1944-1965. -- 1.73 m of textual records. -- Title based on content of series.

BOX 37
F.1 Weekly War Commentaries, and features, broadcast in India c.1944. 16 ts.
F.2 BBC Talks and Features. 49 ms. and ts. items.
F.3 BBC radio and t.v scripts including: "At Home and Abroad" and "Ten O'Clock" (extracts, comprising Connell's interviews with Edward Atiyah, 1959); Connell interviewed about Sir Roy Welensky and the expulsion of Europeans from Kenya. 7 ts. items.
F.4 "Any Questions?" and "Any Answers?". 9 BBC scripts. Also contains: 142 pp..; approx. 44 items of correspondence.
F.5 "The Weekly World" and "Newsstand", 1964-1965. 12 ms. and ts. items.
F.6 Four interview with Lady Violet Bonham-Carter (Baroness Asquith). 1965. Mixed ms. and carbons of correspondence.
F.7-9 Correspondence from BBC staff (producers, recording studio mgrs., etc.), including pay-slips. 1948-1965. Approx. 500 letters.

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F.1 General Correspondence - fan mail with copies of some letters of response. Approx. 200 items.
F.2 Commentary on the Guildhall Banquet on the occasion of the launching of British Independent Television, 22 Sept. 1955.
F.3 "What the Papers Say (Granada TV). 12 ms. and ts. scripts, plus duplicates, together with correspondence.
F.4 "Tribute to Churchill" (Associated Rediffusion Ltd.). Ts. draft and revised scripts, with original and carbon copies of correspondence.
F.5 "Spare the Rod (Granada TV). 8 Feb. 1951. Correspondence with viewers.
F.6 Published version of Connell's radio talks. 1948-1963. These appeared in The Listener, London Calling, London Calling Europe: The Weeklies, and Salisbury and Winchester Journal, Also contains some correspondence.
F.7 "London Letter". Connell's broadcast talks on North American service, 1948-1950. 12 ts.
F.8-9 Early Journalism. 1927-1938. Cuttings or extracted pages of short stories, features, letters-to-editors. Including contributions to The Nipperwian, and The Lorettonian, Isis.

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F.1-3 Early Journalism. 1927-1938. Cuttings or extracted pages of short stories, features, letters-to-editors. Includes contributions to the London Evening News, Columbo Daily News, and provincial papers. Also contains: correspondence; announcements; 3 mss. of lectures.
F.4-14 Weeklies and Periodicals. 1937-1964. A group of individual numbers, extracted pages, or cuttings of Connell's articles, book reviews, etc. Also contains some correspondence.
F.15-18 Evening News and Yorkshire Post. 1933-1964. Press cuttings of Connell's leaders, features, book reviews, etc.

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F.1-2 Evening News and Yorkshire Post. 1933-1964. Contains correspondence on Connell's leaving the staff of the Evening News in 1959.
F.3-6 The Sphere. 1958-1963. 4 original ms., along 165 cuttings or extracts of Connell's articles. Also contains: correspondence; pay slips; press cuttings.
F.7-12 Collection of Reviews of Connell's Books. Includes: press cuttings; publisher's advertisements, trade journals; correspondence.
F.13 Reader's Reports. 1945, 1960, 1962-1965. File of approx. 42 reader's reports made for Michael Joseph, Collins, Cassell and Hutchinson. Chiefly on military memoirs, and some biographies. Also contains attendant correspondents.

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F.1-5 Miscellaneous Shorter Pieces. [ca.1946]-1965. 61 mss. and 24 tss. of book reviews, articles and other pieces.

Series 5
Personal and Miscellaneous Files. -- 1930-1965. -- 55 cm of textual records and graphic material. -- Titile based on content of series.

F.6 Personal Documents. Items include: education; military service; passports; horoscopes; appointments diary for 1965.
F.7 Folder of papers concerning the financial position of Time & Tide, 1955. Also contains letters concerning his trip to Israel in the same year.
F.8 Photographs. 48 items showing Connell (or featuring him).
F.9 Photographs. 40 items showing members of Connell's family, and other scenes.
F.10 Press cuttings of announcements of Connell's death and other pieces.
F.11-2 Misc. correspondence concerning Connell as Trustee of Loretto School (1963 onwards).

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F.1-2 Misc. numbers of The Lorettonian Society (1947-1965), along with other school related publications.
F.3-5 Misc. programmes, menus, and other matter connected with state or social occasions covered by Connell in his journalistic career.
F.6-7Tape Recording. Talk by Connell on his visit to and impressions of the Federation [Southern Rhodesia]. Recorded 25 Apr. 1961. Approx. 20 minutes.
F.8 Misc. documents including: A.B.C. Television contract; pay slip for advisory services on Churchill Obituary Film; letter of credentials from The Evening News; Deed of Trusteeship, 27 Jan. 1957; insurance policy; God-Parent certificate; letter from the High Commissioner for Canada, Canada House, London.
F.9 Scrapbook of advertisements and reviews for "Time and Chance" (1952).
F.10 Scrapbook of advertisements and reviews for "Wavell" (1964).
F.11 Misc. notes, and a ms. review for John Masters' book, "The Pak to Manhood"[?].
F.12-13 Review copy announcements; Requests for reviews. 100+ items.

Series 6
John Connell, D.A. Brown and Miscellaneous Correspondence. -- 1930-1965. -- 38 cm of textual records. -- Title based on content of series.

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F.1 John Connell Correspondence. 8 letters. n.d.
F.2 John Connell Correspondence. 9 letters. 1933-1946.
F.3 John Connell Correspondence. 2 letters. 1954.
F.4 John Connell Correspondence. 9 letters. 1955.
F.5 John Connell Correspondence. 31 letters. 1956.
F.6 John Connell Correspondence. 38 letters. 1957.
F.7 John Connell Correspondence. 100 letters. 1958.
F.8 John Connell Correspondence. 2 letters. 1959.
F.9 John Connell Correspondence. 4 letters. 1960.
F.10 John Connell Correspondence. 43 letters. 1961.
F.11 John Connell Correspondence. 39 letters. 1962.
F.12 John Connell Correspondence. 19 letters. 1963.
F.13 John Connell Correspondence. 36 letters. 1964.
F.14 John Connell Correspondence. 21 letters. 1965.
F.15 Miscellaneous Correspondence. 1932-1965. Also Contains: ms. draft of, "Archie At The Bar"; ms. and press cutting of, "Fighting For Feudalism"; extract of, "The Grubbiness and Glory of India" (a review);
F.16 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 9 letters. 1931.
F.17 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 20 letters. 1931.

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F.1 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 11 letters. 1932.
F.2 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 11 letters. 1933-1934.
F.3 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 17 letters. 1935-1936.
F.4 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 10 letters. 1936.
F.5 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 15 letters. 1937-1938.
F.6 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 7 letters. 1939-1940.
F.7 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 8 letters. 1941.
F.8 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 14 letters. 1942-1944.
F.9 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 16 letters. 1945-1946.
F.10 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 14 letters. 1947-1949.

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F.1 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 14 letters. 1950-1956.
F.2 D.A. (Jimmey) Brown Correspondence. 18 letters. 1959-1964.
F.3 John Connell Robertson Correspondence Committee of 100. Concerning the Ban-the-Bomb movement. 21 letters. 1960-1963. Contains one letter from Bertrand Russell. Also contains press-cuttings.
F.4 D. Forbes Mackintosh Correspondence. 50+ letters. 1950-1965.
F.5 William Ellis School Correspondence. 20+ letters. 1949-1959.
F.6 William Ellis School Correspondence. 50+ letters. 1960-1965.

Series 7
Newspaper Articles and Press Cuttings. --1936-1965. -- 63 cm of textual records. -- Title based on content of series.

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F.1 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1936.
F.2 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1945.
F.3 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1948.
F.4 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1949.
F.5 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1950.
F.6 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1951.
F.7 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1952.
F.8 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1953.
F.9 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1954.
F.10 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1955.
F.11 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1956.

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F.1 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1957.
F.2 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1958.
F.3 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1959.
F.4 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1960.

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F.1-2 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1961.
F.3-4 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1962.
F.5 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1963.
F.6 John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1964.

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F.1John Connell's Newspaper Articles. 1965.
F.2 Misc. cuttings of Connell's Reviews, and letters-to-editors.
F.3 Scrapbook of cuttings [1930-1934?] for: "Lyndesay"; "Who Goes Sailing?"; "The Fortunate Simpleton".
F.4 Scrapbook of cuttings [1935-1947?] for: "David Go Back"; "Tomorrow We Shall Be Free"; "The House By Herod's Gate".
F.5 Misc. Press Clippings of General Interest. 1899-1964. Also contains a ts. transcript of John F. Kennedy's article on B.N. Liddell Hart's, "Deterrent or Defense", Saturday Review 3 Sept. 1960.
F.6 Misc. numbers of the, Federation of Rhodesia & Nyasaland Newsletter. 1962-1963.
F.7 Misc. numbers of the, Congo-Africa [newsletter]. 1962-1963.

BOX 50
F.1 Rough notes for Connell's book reviews.
F.2 Connell's book reviews and articles. 72 carbon tss. drafts, including 1 ms. draft of a review and 2 copies of items used in research.
F.3 Press cuttings of Connell's letters-to-editors.
F.4 Press cuttings of Connell's book reviews and articles.
F.5 Field Marshall Sir Claude Auchinleck. Contains: Reviews of "Auchinleck", by Connell and others; press cuttings and extracts about Auchinleck; dust jacket cover for "Auchinleck".

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