LHCMA catalogue: Papers of Sir Arthur Bryant

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives

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KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

LIDDELL HART CENTRE FOR MILITARY ARCHIVES

Papers of Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899-1985) and Lady Bryant (1874-1958): professional, family and married life, 1877-1938

BRYANT: D Correspondence of (Sir) Arthur Bryant, and related papers, 1939-85

BRYANT: D/1 1945-59

General correspondence, (surnames A-B)

BRYANT: D/2 1945-59

General correspondence, (surnames C-E)

BRYANT: D/3 1945-59

General correspondence, (surnames F-H)

BRYANT: D/4 1945-59

General correspondence, (surnames J-M)

BRYANT: D/5 1945-59

General correspondence, (surnames N-S)

BRYANT: D/6 1945-59

General correspondence, (surnames T-Y and unsorted)

BRYANT: D/7 1937- (but mainly 1945- ) -c.1966

Miscellaneous semi-official correspondence with the GPO, the MCC, solicitors, wine-merchants etc.

BRYANT: D/8-26 Bonar Law College, Ashridge, 1947-49 and later

BRYANT: D/8 1947 (January - June)

Administrative correspondence with T.N. Graham and Col. Harry Gordon

BRYANT: D/9 1947 (July-December)

Administrative correspondence with T.N. Graham and Col. Harry Gordon

BRYANT: D/10 1947

Duplicates of some correspondence, lists of lectures, estimates and accounts

BRYANT: D/11 1947-48

Correspondence with Lord Davidson (Chairman of Governors)

BRYANT: D/12 1947-55

Correspondence with Lord Woolton. Related Material (See also BRYANT E/67)

BRYANT: D/13 1947-57

Correspondence with W.S. Morrison, Leslie Paul, Sir Geoffrey Ellis and others

BRYANT: D/14 1947

Correspondence with General Sir Bernard Paget (Principal), 1944-47. Includes draft of AB's memorandum on the purpose of Ashridge

BRYANT: D/15 1948

Correspondence with General Sir Bernard Paget

BRYANT: D/16 1948

General correspondence

BRYANT: D/17 1948

Minutes and reports of Educational Council, Governing Body and other committees

BRYANT: D/18 1949

General correspondence

BRYANT: D/19 1949 (January - September)

Correspondence with Lord Davidson

BRYANT: D/20 1949

Correspondence with General Sir Bernard Paget

BRYANT: D/21 1950-60

Correspondence with General Sir Bernard Paget

BRYANT: D/22 1949

Correspondence with Governors, members of the Educational Council and others

BRYANT: D/23 1949-50

Letters from members of the public, and copies of AB's letters to the Press, about the Ashridge crisis

BRYANT: D/24 1949

Copies of official and semi-official statements by AB

BRYANT: D/25 1949

Newspaper and other material

BRYANT: D/26 1929-49

Programmes of courses at Ashridge

BRYANT: D/27-63 General and Publishing Correspondence, 1939-85

BRYANT: D/27 1960-85

General correspondence, (surnames A-C)

BRYANT: D/28 1960-85

General correspondence, (surnames D-H)

BRYANT: D/29 1960-85

General correspondence, (surnames I-M)

BRYANT: D/30 1960-85

General correspondence, (surnames N-R)

BRYANT: D/31 1960-85

General correspondence, (surnames S-Z)

BRYANT: D/32 1969-85

General correspondence, unsorted, mainly

BRYANT: D/33 1969-85

General correspondence, unsorted, mainly

BRYANT: D/34 1945-c.1975

Lecturing correspondence, (alphabetical by institutions)

BRYANT: D/35 1945-c.1975

Lecturing correspondence, (alphabetical by institutions)

BRYANT: D/36 1946-72

Lecturing correspondence, (mainly letters of refusal)

BRYANT: D/37 1969-

Lecturing correspondence, mainly (including copy of a lecture on the history of Leeds Castle, Kent. Related Material (See also BRYANT M/100)

BRYANT: D/38 1939-44

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/38a 1945-51

Publishing correspondence with Dropmore Press (about publication of Historian's Holiday)

BRYANT: D/39 1945-49

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/40 1950-52

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/41 1953-55

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/42 1956-58

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/43 1959

Publishing correspondence with Collins, (including general pre-publication correspondence, not with Collins, about Triumph in the West)

BRYANT: D/44 1960-61

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/45 1962

Publishing correspondence with Collins, (and with Longmans)

BRYANT: D/46 1963-65

Publishing correspondence with Collins, (including correspondence with Arthur Banks about maps for The Age of Chivalry)

BRYANT: D/47 1966-68

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/48 1969

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/49 1968-70

Publishing correspondence with Encyclopedia Britannica about their (abortive) plan for a History of England to be written by a team of distinguished scholars led (and largely chosen) by AB, and with prospective contributors

BRYANT: D/50 1968-70

Encyclopedia Britannica correspondence (notes and drafts of letters to prospective contributors)

BRYANT: D/51 1970-71

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/52 1972

Publishing correspondence with Collins, (and with Fontana)

BRYANT: D/53 1973-75

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/54 1976-78

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/55 1979

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/56 1980-85

Publishing correspondence with Collins

BRYANT: D/57 1956-59

Publishing correspondence with Doubleday & Company

BRYANT: D/58 1942-43

Publishing correspondence with Doubleday & Company, 1960-73, and with Harper & Brothers

BRYANT: D/59 1937-50

Collins royalty statements, c. 1960-73. Also Cambridge University Press royalty statements and correspondence about reprints of the Pepys series

BRYANT: D/60 [no date]

Miscellaneous literary correspondence. Includes many invitations to write books or articles, including biographies, business and regimental histories, or unspecified historical works; correspondence about privately commissioned works, such as AB's histories of the Port of London Authority (Liquid History, 1960) and BUPA; correspondence about his drafts of speeches for the Lord Mayor of London, c.1952-75, etc. Mainly 1939-1970s

BRYANT: D/61 1973-78

Correspondence with Franklin Mint and John Pinches (medallists) about a historical series forming the background to a series of medals commemorating the English monarchs. Includes correspondence with A.J.P. Taylor and Lady Antonia Fraser as prospective consultants. Related Material (see also BRYANT E/3 and E/24)

BRYANT: D/62 1946-1970s

Further miscellaneous literary correspondence, including many invitations to write Forewords or Introductions to other authors' books; some copies of Forewords; correspondence with aspiring authors about their work, and with publishers and others sending unsolicited copies of books for review, etc. Mainly. Related Material (see also BRYANT M/155-156)

BRYANT: D/63 1939-79

Correspondence with A.D. Peters (literary agents)

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