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Project / Collection Europeana Collections 1914-1918 Digitised Content Yes (unavailable) Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 39928

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MAP of the situation in France and Flanders, 25 Sept. 1918, the eve of the breaking, of the Cambrai-St. Quentin line. Printed, with autograph note of presentation by F.M. Sir Douglas Haig afterwards Earl Haig of Bemersyde. Paper; f. 1. 17 in. x 18 1/2 in.
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Maps and Plans: Situation-map of Allied front in France and Flanders: 25 Sept. 1918.: Printed. General Chronicles and History of, etc. Army of France: Map of military situation in France and Flanders: 25 Sept. 1918.: Printed. Albert I of Belgium: Map of military situation in France and Flander...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 43838

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'HOUSE OF LORDS. IN PIAM MEMORIAM MCMXIV-MCMXIX': a typewritten copy of the text of the Memorial Book in two volumes, thus entitled, calligraphically written by William Graily Hewitt and Ida D. Henstock in 1927 and preserved in the Library of the House of Lords (see First Report by the Select Committee of the House of Lords appointed to consider the Erection of the Peers' War Memorial, 1928, p. 3, and The Times, 22 Dec. 1928, p. 13). The book lists in alphabetical order, with some biographic...
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Peerage: War I\Iemorial Book of the House of Lords: 1927.: Typewritten copy. England; Parliament: War Memorial Book of the House of Lords: 1927.: Typewritten copy. William Graily Hewitt, scribe: Memorial book executed by, jointly with Miss 1. D. Henstock: 1927.: Typewritten copy. Ida Henstock...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1927
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 44990

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POEMS (62) OF PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS (d. 1917); 24 Dec. 1914- 24 May 1915. Autograph, with a few alternative drafts. Arranged chronologically. See also Brit. Mus. Quart., xii, 1937-1938, pp. 11-13, and, for a brief account of the beginning (in 1914) of Thomas's poetical activity, R.P. Eckert, Edward Thomas, 1937, pp. 150-151. All the poems were subsequently printed, the majority either as written here or with only slight alterations and the addition, where wanting (as in the majority), of titl...
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Philip Edward Thomas, poet: Poems: 1914-1915.: Autogr. Poetry ENGLISH: Edward Thomas: poems: 1914-1915.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 Dec 1914-24 May 1915
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 45160

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'FOR THE FALLEN': autograph copy of the poem by Robert Laurence Binyon, C.H., made for presentation to the Museum; 1938. First published in The Times, 21 Sept. 1914, and in book form in The Winnowing-Fan, 1914, pp. 28, 29. Another autograph manuscript of the poem is in the possession of the League of Remembrance (1914-1945) of 32, Great Ormond Street, London, W.C. 1. Paper; f. 1. Quarto. A.D. 1938. Presented by the author.
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Poetry ENGLISH: Laurence Binyon: 'For the Fallen': 1938.: Autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 45356

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'THE GRAND FLEET 1914-1916', by Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe, G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O., 1st Viscount (and 1925) 1st Earl Jellicoe; 1918. Autograph draft.
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Preceded (ff. i-iii) by notes on the MS. by Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, G.B.E., K.C.B., Jellicoe's Flag Captain at Jutland, 29 Apr. 1939. According to the preface (p. vii) to the printed text, the MS. was finished by the early autumn of 1918, but publication was deferred till after the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1918
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 45416

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HAIG'S 'ORDER OF THE DAY': the draft text of the special order of the day addressed 'To All ranks of the British Forces in France' by Field- Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig 1919, as Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies in France.
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HAIG'S 'ORDER OF THE DAY': the draft text of the special order of the day addressed 'To All ranks of the British Forces in France' by Field- Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig 1919, as Commander-in-Chief of the British Armies in France; 11 Apr. 1918. Autograph. Signed. The order, which beca...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Apr 1918
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 52460

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THE HAIG MEMORANDUM Memorandum of operations on the Western Front during the command of Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig; 1916-1918. One of six typewritten copies (see ff. viii, x). Preceded (ff. i-ix) by correspondence, etc., relating to its presentation, 1920, and reservation, 1928, 1950, and followed (ff. 76-78) by three maps of German and British dispositions, etc., 21 Mar. 1918, n.d. Compiled by Haig's successive Chiefs of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Sir Launcelot Edward Kiggell and Gen. S...
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Army; England: Memorandum of operations on Western Front under command of Sir Douglas Haig: 1916-1918: Typewritten copy. General Sir Herbert Alexander Lawrence, Chief of Staff to Douglas, 1st Earl Haig: Compiled: 1918-1920. Lieutenant-General Sir Launcelot Edward Kiggell, Chief of Staff to Dou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916-1918
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 52537

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CAPT. F. H. MITCHELL, R.N.: LETTERS FROM THE DARDANELLES, ETC Paper; ff. 200. 1915-1916.
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CAPT. F. H. MITCHELL, R.N.: LETTERS FROM THE DARDANELLES, ETC.; 1915-1916. Extracts. Francis Herbert Mitchell (b. 1876, d. 1946) entered the Navy in 1889, and was promoted Captain in 1913, Rear-Admiral 1924, Vice-Admiral 1929 and Admiral 1933. For his service as a Naval Adviser in the Gallipoli ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1915-1916
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 56099

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SIEGFRIED SASSOON: letters to his uncle, Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, R.A., with some related correspondence; circa 1906-1966, n.d. Partly type-written. Most of the letters were written during Sassoon's period of war service. Presented by Mrs Elfrida Mary Manning, daughter of Sir Hamo Thornycroft, 13 Dec. 1969. Paper; ff. 53. British Library arrangement.
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Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, author and poet: Sir William Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor: Letters to Sir William Hamo Thornycroft from Siegfried Loraine Sassoon: circa 1906-circa 1925. includes: f. 17 Michael Sassoon, brother of Siegfried Sassoon: Letter to Sir W. H. Thornycroft: 1917. f. 19 Harold ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1906-1966
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 58852

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ISAAC ROSENBERG: poems, prose and letters of Isaac Rosenberg (b.1890, d.1918), poet, originally owned by Ruth Löwy, afterwards Lady Gollancz, together with labels and a catalogue for an exhibition at the Harrogate Festival, 1970; circa 1912-1918. Partly autograph, partly typewritten, with autograph corrections and additions. See Ian Parsons (ed.) The Collected works of Isaac Rosenberg, Poetry, Prose, Letters and Drawings (1979). For further Rosenberg material, see Add. 61743. Presented by Mi...
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Isaac Rosenberg, poet: Ruth Löwy, afterwards Gollancz: Letters to Ruth Löwy from Isaac Rosenberg: circa 1912-1916, n.d. Isaac Rosenberg, poet: Poems and prose by Isaac Rosenberg: 1912-1918, n.d.: Autogr. and typewritten.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1912-1918
Extent:
1 item