Add MS 56401

HARVEY DIARIES. Vol. XXIII. Correspondence and papers; 1936-1940. Partly copies.

ff. 190.

Contents:

1. ff. 1-72. Correspondence, etc., consisting chiefly of memoranda from Harvey to Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, while Harvey was his Principal Private Secretary; 1936-1938. Many items are annotated or initialled by Eden.

2. ff. 73-172. Correspondence, etc., consisting chiefly of memoranda from Harvey to Lord Halifax, while Harvey was his Principal Private Secretary; 1938-1939. Many items are annotated or initialled by Halifax. Included are notes on the Czechoslovak Crisis, 1938 (ff. 74-78), and the text of Lord Halifax's speech to the House of Lords,

1 Sept. 1939 (ff. 154-166), followed by his notes for that of 3 Sept. 1939 (ff. 167-171).

3. ff. 173-190. Reports by Harvey on private conversations with French politicians, journalists and others, including visitors to Paris, prepared for Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, Ambassador to France, while Harvey was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to France; 1940. The report of 5 April is initialled by Campbell (ff. 186-187).

includes:

• ff. 1-171 passim Germany; Emperors, etc., and transactions in particular reigns. Third Reich: Foreign Office memoranda, etc., rel. to: 1936-1939: Partly copies.
• ff. 1-72 Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon; Prime Minister: Correspondence, etc., with his Private Sec., O. C. Harvey: 1936-1945: Partly copies. Mostly initialled.
• ff. 9-149 passim Victor Emmanuel III of Italy: Foreign Office memoranda, etc., rel. to, mostly by O. C. Harvey: 1937-1939: Partly copies.
• f. 11v Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne; 5th Marquess of Salisbury: Minute by: 1937: Copy.
• ff. 12-13, 44-45 Palestine: Foreign Office memoranda by O. C. Harvey rel. to: 1937, 1941: Partly copy.
• ff. 24-34 passim, 82-86, 114 Spain; Sovereigns of, and events in particular reigns. Second Republic: Foreign Office memoranda by O. C. Harvey rel. to: 1937-1939: Partly copy.
• ff. 53-57 British America, and United States: Foreign Office minute on the 'Roosevelt Plan': 1938.
• ff. 53-57 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, US President; d.1945: Foreign Office minute on the 'Roosevelt Plan': 1938.
• ff. 63-68 Dino Grandi, Italian statesman and diplomatist: Memorandum on conversations of, with the British Government: 1938.
• f. 68 Reuters; News Agency: Report by: 1938: Copy.
• f. 68 Sir Charles Brinsley Pemberton Peake, GCMG; diplomatist: Minute by: 1938: Copy.
• ff. 73-172 Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Baron Irwin; 3rd Viscount and 1st Earl of Halifax: Correspondence, etc., with his Private Sec., O. C. Harvey: 1938-1939: Partly copies. Mostly initialled.
• ff. 74-78 Czechoslovakia: Notes on the Sudeten crisis: 1938.
• ff. 91-99 Sir Eric Clare Edmund Phipps, PC; GCB: Correspondence with Lord Halifax: 1938: Copies.
• ff. 91-99 Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Baron Irwin; 3rd Viscount and 1st Earl of Halifax: Correspondence with Sir E. C. E. Phipps: 1938: Copies.
• f. 137 Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge: Letter to O. C. Harvey: 1939.
• f. 143 Henry Bucknall Betterton, Baron Rushcliffe: Letter to 'The Times': 1939: Printed.
• ff. 153-171 England; Parliament: Speeches of Lord Halifax: 1939: Partly autogr. draft.
• f. 172 Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister: Minute by: 1939: Initialled.
• ff. 173-190 Sir Ronald Hugh Campbell, GCMG; diplomatist: Reports to, by O. C. Harvey, on conversations with French politicians, etc.,: 1940: Mostly copies.
• ff. 173-190 France; Sovereigns of, and transactions in particular reigns. Third Republic: Reports by O. C. Harvey on conversations with French politicians, etc.,: 1940: Mostly copies.
• ff. 188-190 Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, statesman and lawyer: Report by O. C. Harvey on conversation with: 1940: Copy.