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: N Notes for Historical and other Works (NOTE: Sections N 36-40 revised August 2001)
[These notes, made at various times throughout Bryant's working life, are arranged chronologically by subject-matter rather than in the order of the books for which they were apparently made. Bryant's method, from the early 1930s, when he began work on the first volume of his biography of Pepys, until about 1955, was to cross-index his notes from books by having them transferred on to typed slips, each one headed with a succession of subject-headings (e.g. PALMERSTON: FOREIGN POLICY: HISTORY REPEATS: EMPIRE: NATIONAL CHARACTER). A copy of each slip was made to correspond with each subject-heading, and stored in an envelope with copies of other slips containing notes bearing that subject-heading. Some headings (e.g. HISTORY REPEATS, one of Bryant's favourite concepts) recur frequently, on a succession of envelopes which have not always been reunited with one another]

BRYANT: N/1 [no date]

Notes for Makers of the Realm. Medieval subject-files (alphabetical) from AGRICULTURE to UNIVERSITIES

BRYANT: N/2 [no date]

13th - 14th centuries: Historical notes

BRYANT: N/3 [no date]

13th - 14th centuries: Historical notes

BRYANT: N/4 [no date]

15th century: Historical notes

BRYANT: N/5 [no date]

15th century: Historical notes

BRYANT: N/5a [no date]

15th century: Historical notes

BRYANT: N/6 [no date]

15th - 16th centuries: Historical notes

BRYANT: N/7 [no date]

15th - 16th centuries: Historical notes

BRYANT: N/8 [no date]

15th - 16th centuries: Historical notes

BRYANT: N/9 [no date]

Notes on Pepys by J.R. Tanner (badly impaired by damp)

BRYANT: N/10 [no date]

Notes on Pepys by Arthur Bryant, divided into year-files and subject-files, with a bundle of J.R. Tanner's notes

BRYANT: N/11 [no date]

Notes on Pepys by Arthur Bryant, divided into year-files and subject-files

BRYANT: N/12 [no date]

Notes on Pepys by Arthur Bryant: subject-files. Also copy of W. Matthews's transcript (for Arthur Bryant) of Pepys's Tangier journal (impaired by damp)

BRYANT: N/13 [no date]

Notes on Pepys by Arthur Bryant, divided into year-files and subject-files, with some printed material

BRYANT: N/14 [no date]

Notes on Pepys by Arthur Bryant: files on individuals and other subjects. Related Material (See also BRYANT N/33)

BRYANT: N/15 [no date]

17th-century notes (general), including typescript copies of royal letters and some notes on Pepys, some of them probably in Tanner's hand (a few badly impaired by damp)

BRYANT: N/16 [no date]

Notes for King Charles II, and other 17th-century notes, e.g. on the Verney letters for Postman's Horn

BRYANT: N/17 [no date]

Notes on Samuel Johnson

BRYANT: N/18 [no date]

Late 18th- and 19th-century notes on politics, the Army, social history etc.

BRYANT: N/19 [no date]

Late 18th- to mid-19th century notes, mainly on social history

BRYANT: N/20 [no date]

Notes on the early Napoleonic War period for The Years of Endurance and The Years of Victory

BRYANT: N/21 [no date]

Notes on Wellington and his campaigns

BRYANT: N/22 [no date]

Napoleonic War notes, 1812-15 [...] , and some on the subsequent period of peace, for The Age of Elegance

BRYANT: N/23 [no date]

Alphabetically-arranged subject-files for English Saga, 1840-1940 (with list), apparently including others made later for The Age of Elegance

BRYANT: N/24 [no date]

Subject-files and early chronological year-files for The Age of Elegance, including materials on Christian beliefs and feasts contributed by Henry Edwards

BRYANT: N/25 [no date]

Notes on social history, literature, religion, etc., mainly 1815-20, for The Age of Elegance

BRYANT: N/26 [no date]

Early to mid-nineteenth century year- and subject-files

BRYANT: N/27 [no date]

General 19th-century subject-files, alphabetically arranged (e.g. EDUCATION, EMPIRE, MUSIC)

BRYANT: N/28 [no date]

Further subject-files, continuing same series

BRYANT: N/29 [no date]

General 19th-century subject-files (another series)

BRYANT: N/30 [no date]

19th-century year-files to 1880s (apparently continuing N/26)

BRYANT: N/31 [no date]

Notes on Disraeli

BRYANT: N/32 [no date]

Miscellaneous 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century notes, including material for The American Ideal; notes on Richard Rush and other American ambassadors to Britain; two notebooks on Conservatism; First World War notes for Unfinished Victory; and notes on London police life in the 1930s for A Policeman's Lot

BRYANT: N/33 [no date]

Further Pepys material, including photographs, notebooks in Arthur Bryant's and other hands, and some material on Charles II

BRYANT: N/34 [no date]

Alanbrooke material (for The Turn of the Tide and Triumph in the West). Copies of his Notes on My Life and of his correspondence with Field-Marshal Montgomery, 1943-44

BRYANT: N/35 [no date]

Alanbrooke material. Typescript copies of Reports on Operations by leading members of the armed forces; background material on wartime events; some correspondence about Alanbrooke's diaries

BRYANT: Section N 36-40 (revised August 2001)

BRYANT: N 36 no date

Alanbrooke material. Correspondence about Alanbrooke's diaries with Alanbrooke himself and with his daughter, Mrs 'Buster' Long, and copies of correspondence about the Alanbrooke Papers between Arthur Bryant and others, with a memoir and other background material. (See also BRYANT F 7)

BRYANT: N 37 no date

Typed copies of Alanbrooke material from printed sources.

BRYANT: N 38 no date

Copies of correspondence with General Sir David Fraser about a projected joint biography of Alanbrooke, and related material.

BRYANT: N 39 no date

Military notes, general. (See also BRYANT G 6)

BRYANT: N 40 [1930-1937]

Notes for Stanley Baldwin. A tribute (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1937).

BRYANT: P Proofs, Pamphlets, and Printed Reviews and Articles by Arthur Bryant (revised August 2001)

BRYANT: P 1 [1930-1931]

Proofs of King Charles II (Longmans, London, 1931), with critical notes by Edmund Blunden. 1 box

BRYANT: P 2 [1939-1940]

Proofs of Unfinished victory (Macmillan, London, 1940), including textual amendments, 1939. 2 boxes

BRYANT: P 3 [1959]

Proofs of Triumph in the West, 1943-1946. Based on the diaries and autobiographical notes of Field Marshal the Viscount Alanbrooke (Collins, London, 1959), with brief notes by FM Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookeborough, and by FM Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein and Hindhead. 1 box

BRYANT: P 4 no date

Proofs of Observer and other newspaper articles; of The political speeches of Neville Chamberlain, and other works with prefaces by Arthur Bryant. 1 box

BRYANT: P 5 1931-1984

Printed copies of newspaper articles and reviews by Arthur Bryant, 1931-1984. 4 boxes

BRYANT: P 6 no date

Copies of pamphlets and magazine articles, mainly by or about Arthur Bryant. 2 boxes

BRYANT: P 7 no date

Pamphlets and printed ephemera not by (but in some cases inscribed to) Arthur Bryant. Manuscripts of works by other writers, including The English tragedy by Bernard Knowles (see E 57), The service of banking, by Edward Bishop, and Viscount Montgomery's memoirs. Also proofs of Antony by Lord Lytton (a memoir of his son, Lord Knebworth, killed in 1933, quoting Arthur Bryant's eulogy of him), and of other works. 3 boxes

BRYANT: P 8 [1979]

Manuscript copies of Portrait of a historian by Pamela Street (1979), with amendments and further comments by Arthur Bryant. 3 boxes

BRYANT: R Newspaper Reviews of Arthur Bryant's Books and other Newspaper Material

BRYANT: R/1 1938

Reviews of The Spirit of Conservatism, King Charles II, and Pepys, volumes I-III, and serialized numbers of the Pepys biography in the Sunday Times

BRYANT: R/2 [no date]

Reviews of The National Character, Pepys: The Years of Peril, Unfinished Victory, Britain Awake!, English Saga, The Years of Endurance and The Years of Victory

BRYANT: R/3 [no date]

Reviews of Postman's Horn, The American Ideal, A Choice for Destiny (1962), and various books with Forewords or Introductions by Arthur Bryant

BRYANT: R/4 [no date]

Reviews of pageants directed by Arthur Bryant, events at Ashridge, Arthur Bryant's wartime lectures, The Years of Victory and Postman's Horn (reissued 1946)

BRYANT: R/5 1949

Reviews of The Age of Elegance; articles and news reports about the crisis at Ashridge

BRYANT: R/6 [1957-59]

Reviews of The Turn of the Tide, Triumph in the West etc

BRYANT: R/7 [1940-60]

General newspaper material, mainly 1940s-1960s, including mentions of Arthur Bryant and a number of reviews of his books

BRYANT: R/8 [1918, 1938]

The Times (series of issues), 1918, and assorted other daily papers with reports of the Munich crisis, 1938

BRYANT: R/9 [1920-1930]

General newspaper material, mainly 1920s, including reports on the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Crafts; Comus at Ashridge (1930); pageants, etc.

BRYANT: R/10 [1930-39]

General newspaper material

BRYANT: R/11 (1936)

Assorted newspaper material on the Abdication crisis, Rhodesia, South Africa etc.

BRYANT: R/12 [no date]

Newspaper material on bureaucracy, airports, agriculture etc.

BRYANT: R/13 [1939-50]

Newspaper, pamphlet and typescript material on political events of the Second World War and after, including South Africa, Conservatism etc.

BRYANT: R/14 [no date]

Newspaper and pamphlet material on the economy, the environment, immigration etc. Related Material (see also BRYANT H/9)

BRYANT: R/15 [1950-70]

General newspaper material, including reviews of Makers of the Realm, The Medieval Foundation, Protestant Island, The Great Duke etc.

BRYANT: R/16 [1970-79]

Newspaper material for Illustrated London News articles on morals, crime, social class and the economy

BRYANT: R/17 [1970-1980]

Newspaper material for Illustrated London News articles on education and miscellaneous subjects

BRYANT: S Diaries, Notebooks, Account-Books etc. and Letters to the Press

BRYANT: S/1 [1916-1971]

Collection of notebooks, diaries and account-books:
a. Notebook, c.1916-1923, containing jokes; true stories, many connected with schoolteaching; history teaching notes; list of 'Literary Ventures', naming stories, articles and poems written and periodicals to which they were sent, with results, etc.
b. Diary, April - July 1927, describing journeys in England. 1 volume
c. Engagement diaries, 1924-1982. 73 volumes (some duplicates; some unused)
d. Visitors' Book, 1924-1936, kept at Reeded Barn, Babraham and The White House, East Claydon. 1 volume
e. Letter Books, 1945-1976, listing letters received and sent on a daily basis. 16 volumes
f. Pocket diary of A.H. Paget in U.S.A., 1896. 1 volume
g. Address-books (from early 1930s) and petty cash books. Several volumes

BRYANT: S/2 1928-1971

Household accounts (intermittent). 5 folio volumes List of outgoing telephone calls, 1947-1955. 1 folio volume List of furniture, with drafts of some Illustrated London News articles. 1 folio volume. Related Material (See also BRYANT L/7)

BRYANT: S/3 [no date]

Copies of letters to The Times and other newspapers, and some editorial correspondence in connection with these

BRYANT: T Personal Business and Financial Affairs

BRYANT: T/1 1936 - c.1980

Income-tax papers and correspondence with chartered accountants

BRYANT: T/2 1950s - 1970s

Further correspondence with chartered accountants. Some correspondence with chartered surveyors and insurance agents, various dates.

BRYANT: T/3 1946 - c.1980

Insurance papers

BRYANT: T/4 [1930-1985]

Correspondence with the Midland Bank; statements (including NBA account); correspondence with stockbrokers from 1933

BRYANT: T/5 [1925-1975]

Early business letters from 1925, including a draft lease of The White House, East Claydon, from Sir Harry Verney, Bart., and letters about furniture and domestic arrangements at The White House. Papers concerning rent and rates of 18 Rutland Gate, 1952-1970s. Papers concerning employees' PAYE and SET. Correspondence with Mr. and Mrs. Chalkley (Arthur Bryant's 'married couple' at Wincombe and Rutland Gate, 1950s - 1970s). Records of Arthur Bryant's payment of gas accounts for Mrs. Lowcock of Harlesden ('Other Nan', his childhood nursemaid), 1960s - 1970s. Correspondence about pension and Authors' Retirement Benefit Fund. List of silver used at a dinner party, October 18, 1975. BUPA correspondence 1984

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