Add MS 82580 A

Supplementary Keyes Papers. Correspondence; 28 May 1884– 25 Aug. 1920, n.d.

Contents:

1. Family correspondence; 28 May 1884– 25 April 1885. Includes letters from Keyes’s father, Gen. Sir Charles Patton Keyes, to Keyes’s mother, Lady Katherine Keyes.

2. Letters to Eva Keyes from Belgian soldiers on the western front, some include photographs of themselves; 13 Nov. 1915– 25 Dec. 1916.

3. Letter from Charles Walker at the Admiralty confirming Keyes’s promotion to Rear Admiral; 12 April 1917.

4. Printed card depicting ‘The Scotsman’s’ announcement of the birth of Roger an Eva Keyes’s son [Geoffrey]; aft. 21 May 1917.

5. Copy telegrams to Keyes, chiefly congratulating him on the first anniversary of his raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend during World War One; 23 April 1919 – July 1920..

6 Letters from Roger Keyes to his wife, Eva; 1 June – 25 Aug. 1920.

7. Copy letter from Edmund F. Gray, British Consulate, Christiania to the Flag Lieutenant, HMS Hood; 14 June 1920. Gray states that his wife has a list of local girls who can attend dances on board while the ship is in harbour.

8. Keyes’s notes of his medal clasps, a list of HMS Tiger ratings who served at Zeebrugge on 23 April 1918 in HMS Vindictive, and an envelope addressed to Keyes; n.d.

Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes: Lady Eva Keyes, wife of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes: Correspondence of Adm. of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes and Lady Eva Keyes: 1912-1944, n.d.

Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes: Correspondence and papers of Adm. of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes: 1884-1920.

General Sir Charles Patton Keyes, father of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes: Lady Katherine Keyes, wife of General Sir Charles Keyes; mother of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes: Letters to Lady Katherine Keyes from Gen. Sir Charles Patton Keyes: 1884-1885.