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: M Manuscripts of Books, Articles, Reviews, Talks etc. (NOTE: sections M 38 - 81 revised version, August 2001)

BRYANT: M/1 [1929]

The Spirit of Conservatism: early manuscript draft, including typed quotations from other works

BRYANT: M/2 [1931]

King Charles II: early manuscript draft

BRYANT: M/3 [1931]

King Charles II: corrected typescript with typed notes

BRYANT: M/3a [1931]

King Charles II: duplicate typescript

BRYANT: M/4 [1932]

Macaulay: partial manuscript, with manuscript notes and outline

BRYANT: M/5 [1932]

Macaulay: corrected typescripts [two copies, one incomplete]

BRYANT: M/6 [1933]

Pepys: The Man in the Making: manuscript

BRYANT: M/7 [1935]

Pepys: The Years of Peril: manuscript

BRYANT: M/8 [1938]

Pepys: Saviour of the Navy: manuscript

BRYANT: M/9 [1938]

Pepys: Saviour of the Navy: additional manuscript copies of some chapters, with dates of composition

BRYANT: M/10 [no date]

Pepys: The Man in the Making: corrected typescript

BRYANT: M/11 [no date]

Pepys: The Years of Peril: two [earlier and later] typescript versions, one incomplete

BRYANT: M/12 [no date]

Pepys: Saviour of the Navy: two [earlier and later] typescript versions, one incomplete

BRYANT: M/13 [1978]

Pepys, volume IV [unpublished]: typescript and partial carbon copies of first two chapters, with various typescript versions of Pepys and the Revolution, an adaptation of part of Pepys: Saviour of the Navy with previously unpublished epilogue.

BRYANT: M/14 [1934]

The England of Charles II: corrected typescript versions, one chapter with marginal comments apparently by G.M. Trevelyan

BRYANT: M/14a [1934]

The England of Charles II Duplicate Chapters

BRYANT: M/15 [1935]

The Letters, Council Notes and Speeches of Charles II: manuscript

BRYANT: M/16 [1935]

The Letters, Council Notes and Speeches of Charles II: corrected typescript

BRYANT: M/17 [1934]

The National Character: manuscript of original broadcast talks [1933], with some manuscript notes and a preface. Incomplete. Related Material [See also M/100]

BRYANT: M/18 [no date]

The National Character: typescripts of talks [various versions]

BRYANT: M/19 [1936]

Postman's Horn: corrected typescript with manuscript introduction and fragments of manuscript

BRYANT: M/20 [1936]

The American Ideal: incomplete manuscript with corrective notes in typescript and in the hand of Arthur Bryant's father, Sir Francis Bryant

BRYANT: M/21 [1936]

The American Ideal: corrected typescript with some duplication

BRYANT: M/22 [1936]

King George V: early version, mixed manuscript and typescript

BRYANT: M/23 [1936]

King George V: later version, almost all in typescript

BRYANT: M/24 [1936]

King George V: corrected typescript

BRYANT: M/25 [1937]

Stanley Baldwin, A Tribute: manuscript

BRYANT: M/26 [no date]

Stanley Baldwin, A Tribute: corrected typescript

BRYANT: M/27 [no date]

Stanley Baldwin, A Tribute: typescript of earlier versions of two chapters [2 and 3]

BRYANT: M/28 [1938]

Humanity in Politics: typescript copies of 'Our Notebook' essays from Illustrated London News [with new titles] used for book

BRYANT: M/29 [1939]

My Struggle for Peace: The Political Speeches of Neville Chamberlain, ed. by Arthur Bryant: manuscript of editorial sections

BRYANT: M/30 [1939]

My Struggle for Peace: typescript, with earlier version in the form of newspaper-cuttings, Hansard extracts and typed linking sections

BRYANT: M/31 1940

Britain Awake! [published anonymously by 'Junius']: early manuscript and typescript drafts, including many duplicates

BRYANT: M/31a [1940]

Britain Awake!: further typescript copies

BRYANT: M/32 [1940]

Britain Awake!: notes

BRYANT: M/33 [1940]

Unfinished Victory: original manuscript draft

BRYANT: M/34 [1940]

Unfinished Victory: various corrected typescript drafts

BRYANT: M/35 [1940]

English Saga: manuscript draft with corrected typescripts of Preface and Introduction and some typescript pages, together with typed notes [on slips] inserted into the text

BRYANT: M/36 [no date]

English Saga: various corrected typescript versions

BRYANT: M/36a [no date]

English Saga: another version with carbon manuscript pages

BRYANT: M/36b [no date]

English Saga: another version, typed

BRYANT: M/37 1962

English Saga: extracts used for a projected school textbook, Your Forefathers, by Arthur Bryant and Fielden Hughes, together with comments by Arthur Bryant and some correspondence with Hughes

BRYANT: M Manuscripts of books, articles, reviews, talks etc, sections M 38 - 81 (revised version, August 2001)

BRYANT: M 38 [1942]

The Years of Endurance (1942): corrected typescripts of earlier versions and main, final version, intermingled but in chronological order. 1 box

BRYANT: M 39 [1942]

The Years of Endurance: odd typescript pages including part of index. 1 box

BRYANT: M 40 [1944]

The Years of Victory (1944): original manuscript version. 2 boxes

BRYANT: M 41 [1944]

The Years of Victory: typescript versions of chapters 1-6. 2 boxes

BRYANT: M 42 [1944]

The Years of Victory: typescript versions of chapters 7-15. 4 boxes.

BRYANT: M 43 1950

The Age of Elegance (1950): original manuscript, including manuscript notebook containing draft of one chapter. 4 boxes

BRYANT: M 44 1957

The Turn of the Tide (1957): manuscript. 2 boxes

BRYANT: M 45 [1957]

The Turn of the Tide: early manuscript versions and drafts of letters by Arthur Bryant about the projected book. 2 boxes

BRYANT: M 46 [1957]

The Turn of the Tide: corrected typescript. 5 boxes

BRYANT: M 47 [1959]

Triumph in the West (1959): manuscript, and some typescript. 2 boxes

BRYANT: M 48 [1959]

Triumph in the West: various corrected typescript versions of chapters 1-6. 2 boxes

BRYANT: M 49 [1959]

Triumph in the West: various corrected typescript versions of chapters 7-14. 2 boxes

BRYANT: M 50 [1959]

Turn of the Tide and Triumph in the West: typed indexes and various typescript versions of Arthur Bryant's prologue and epilogue. Also typescript of broadcast, 'The Alanbrooke diaries' (1957); typescript of an American edition of a biography of Alanbrooke, annotated by Arthur Bryant, and duplicated fair copies of parts of both The Turn of the Tide and Triumph in the West, possibly for an American condensed edition. 3 boxes

BRYANT: M 51 1953

Makers of the Realm (1953): manuscript versions, with notes on Christianity in handwriting that is not Arthur Bryant's, also typescript chapters annotated with comments by A L Rowse, A R Myers and others. 2 boxes

BRYANT: M 52 1963

The Age of Chivalry (1963): manuscripts, chiefly in chapter files. 2 boxes

BRYANT: M 53 1966

The Medieval Foundation (1966): incomplete manuscripts, blurbs and other material. 1 file

BRYANT: M54 no date

The Island Kingdoms, 1382-1572 (unpublished in this form): manuscripts and typescripts. 2 boxes

BRYANT: M 55 1980

The Elizabethan Deliverance (1980): typescript. 4 boxes

BRYANT: M 56 1971

The Great Duke (1971): incomplete manuscript. 1 file

BRYANT: M 57 [1971]

The Great Duke: incomplete typescript. 1 file

BRYANT: M 58 [1972]

Jackets of Green (1972): manuscript. 2 boxes

BRYANT: M 59 [1975]

A Thousand Years of British Monarchy (1975): manuscript. 1 file

BRYANT: M 60 [1975]

A Thousand Years of British Monarchy: typescript.

BRYANT: M 61-66 Books written for private circulation or unfinished (revised version, August 2001)

BRYANT: M 61 1925

Rupert Buxton: a memoir (Cambridge University Press,1925): manuscript, typescript and proofs, with typescript copies of poems and original manuscript letters and typescript copies of letters from Rupert Buxton to Arthur Bryant and members of his own family. (See also C 4-5).Rupert Buxton, a slightly younger Harrow contemporary of Arthur Bryant's, and the nephew of Charles Roden Buxton, MP, was drowned at Sandford Lock while an undergraduate at Oxford. 1 file

BRYANT: M 62 [1930]

History of the Bonar Law College, Ashridge: typescript, with typescript of other articles and lectures on Ashridge, c 1930. 1 file

BRYANT: M 63 1940 - 1941

The Battle of Britain, August - October, 1940 (Ministry of Information, 1941): manuscript, typescript, notes and printed copy. 1 file

BRYANT: M 64 1967-1968

History of BUPA (British United Provident Association) (1967-1968): manuscript, typescript and printed copy. 1 file

BRYANT: M 65 [1936]

Biography of Disraeli (commissioned 1936 but never published): manuscript and typescript copies of first three chapters. 1 file

BRYANT: M 66 no date

History of the Shaw Savill Line: manuscript draft, typescript and printed copy. 1 file

BRYANT: M 67-81 Articles, reviews, talks and lecture notes (revised version, August 2001)

BRYANT: M 67 1936-1937

Illustrated London News: 'Our notebook' articles, 1936-1937: manuscripts, with assorted manuscripts and typescripts of later Illustrated London News articles and some for other newspapers or periodicals. 3 boxes

BRYANT: M 68 [1930-1949]

Illustrated London News articles, 1930s - 1940s: manuscripts. 5 boxes

BRYANT: M 69 [1940-1959]

Illustrated London News articles, 1940s - 1950s: manuscripts. 5 boxes

BRYANT: M 70 [1940-1969]

Illustrated London News articles, 1940s - 1960s: typed fair copies and proofs, with a few whole issues. 3 boxes

BRYANT: M 71 no date

Illustrated London News articles, undated: manuscripts. 4 boxes

BRYANT: M 72 no date

Illustrated London News articles, undated: manuscripts and typescripts. 5 boxes

BRYANT: M 73 [1970-1989]

Illustrated London News articles, 1970s - 1980s: manuscripts, typescripts, some proofs, some printed copies of earlier articles. 5 boxes

BRYANT: M 74 [1920-1938]

Stories, articles and reviews (early, to c 1929): manuscripts and typescripts, with manuscripts of Observer reviews and leading articles, c 1934-1938 (see also B 16 and B 18). 3 boxes

BRYANT: M 75 [1930-1959]

Reviews and prefaces, 1930s - 1950s: manuscripts and typescripts. 4 boxes

BRYANT: M 76 no date

Reviews and articles, various dates (including a few printed copies): manuscripts and typescripts. 5 boxes

BRYANT: M 77 no date

Reviews, forewords and other articles, various dates: typescript. 5 boxes

BRYANT: M 78 [1933-1989]

Texts of speeches and broadcasts by Arthur Bryant, c 1933-1980s: manuscripts and typescripts, with some printed transcripts. 3 boxes

BRYANT: M 79 [1923-1936]

Lecture notes on English literature, local and social history and the writing of history and biography. Includes early notes for classes in Cambridgeshire and on the Oxford extramural circuit, c 1923-1936, and printed lecture notes issued by the Education Department, Conservative Central Office, 1927. 5 boxes

BRYANT: M 80 no date

Lecture notes on history and biography. 4 boxes

BRYANT: M 81 no date

Lecture notes on topics including politics, World War Two and reconstruction; also general notes for school speech days. 3 boxes

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